Cwlcymro wrote:Mr Blue Sky wrote:Frank wrote:
I'm a little confused. They are renovating the building and bringing in shipping containers?
It is a confusing article. The shipping containers will be at Loft Co's Goodsheds development in Barry.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/new-images-revealed-wales-latest-15313521.amp
Are you sure? My reading is that there will be a shipping container by Platform for a daytime coffeeshop and a rotating cast of street food vendors on weekends whilst the Barry site will have 50 shipping containers with permanent places for some street food people (who will then become the rotating cast for the Cardiff Bay one)
My mistake. I am surprised that the council would allow the container aesthetic here. It is very prominent and could have been an architectural statement. I guess the figures don’t stack up for anything extravagant.
I was involved in embryonic plans a few years back to turn this building into a global centre for grassroots politics, with a forum at its centre where anyone could speak while in a space surrounded by restaurants, bars, conference and meeting rooms, and hotel rooms in the upper floors of the original building. The old roof over the platform was to be replaced by a large glass box which would contain the forum and places to eat.
The figures didn’t really stack up.