Simon_SW17 wrote:Another one bites the dust in The Capitol then...
I'll be honest, I sort of hope that one day the Capitol Centre will be demolished. Now that the city has both St Davids 1 & 2, the shopping centre has become almost completely redundant, the fact that it's on the opposite end of Queen Street, and St Davids 1 & 2 is one giant interconnected complex means I've never had any reason to go in there.
The thing I hate most about it though is the architecture, even after the internal rebuild in 2001, the entire thing still looks ghastly- an absolute failure of Post Modernist architecture, that looked tacky and out of date a just few years after it was built.
I would love to see the whole complex demolished & rebuilt, as a mixed use, pedestrianised development, maybe with a little park/square to replace the one that was built over to make way for the new Admiral HQ, if it was next to the station then it could give the area a bit of breathing space, rather then the station feeling like it's being squished between a load of buildings as it is now.
(maybe while they're at it, they could reopen the
Dock Feeder canal that's currently running under Churchill Way, seeing as that road doesn't really have much of a point being a Dual Carriageway after Queen Street was pedestrianised.)