Central Square

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+b ... vfdaD0M%3A

Done a bit of digging and I found this. Excuse the link but I don't know how to get photos on here.
I think it's just a concept, also it mentions only being 20 stories, I was hoping for something a little taller.

Alas I don't think this is further up to date than what Peiriannydd was referring to with some of those images. Your main link to Nick Socrates is very much a speculative concept that Nick does a fair few of. Nick has been on this very forum with some of his great speculative designs. I'm hoping that a tower on this land is still going to happen but I guess it may be a little way off - I don't think the walesonline reference to it earlier means they are any more in the know than us, although I hope I'm wrong.

ye, so when is this shithouse actually going down? Been like 2 months since we waited for it

ye, so when is this shithouse actually going down? Been like 2 months since we waited for it

Well from shi**ouse (we are trying to be 'family fiendly here by the way!) I'm presuming you mean Marland house? I'm sure I've read that this was due to be demolished from the end of July. So really hope we see one of those mechanical dinosaurs starting to devour this.. um building next week! Good Riddance! they need to crack on with the bus station and maybe we'll know how ambitious that scheme will be then, or rather what's above the station or whatever it's to be described as.

The Interchange. The speed and confidence with which JR Smart are pursuing John St suggests and Capital Quarter suggests to me that Rightacres may have lost out to them when it comes to HMRC. The 300,000+ square foot they would have taken up would have basically been the entire interchange building. If thats correct they are probably going to go back to the drawing board for a bit of a rethink - something involving some hotel space, resi space, and a cut-down office component, perhaps. That might delay timescale for the "building above" the Interchange bus station. Question is will they push ahead on schedule with the bus station, with the upper floors being completed at a later date?

I could be wrong - perhaps the building is flexible enough that no redesign is required even with alternative use classes, but the smaller floor-to-ceiling height of resi versus offices suggests at least some rescaling would be needed.

The latest Walesonline article states that 50,000 cubic metres of material have been removed from the Central Square site.

A genuine question - where has that material gone?

The latest Walesonline article states that 50,000 cubic metres of material have been removed from the Central Square site.

A genuine question - where has that material gone?

Depends whether the soil is considered contaminated in any way.

If the soil is not contaminated? Either I read it or dreamt it but didn't the soil excavated for the John Lewis underground car park get taken to Lamby Way and used to landscape a bike park?

If it is contaminated where does it go?

Swansea as it helps clean the place up a bit

Just walking past this site today - a wet, grey miserable 'summers' day! and my mood was not improved by this depressing windswept patch of land. I know plans are to demolish St Davids House in 2yrs ish? but in the meantime according to the central square masterplan construction will have commenced on this currently very miserable site.



Just wondering when we may hear something concrete (or preferably steel and glass!!) for the area. I know I'm slightly jumping the gun as there is potentially a large development to proceed with where marland house still is.

from rightacres central sq. website...


JUNE 2016

The thought of the European cup being hosted and tens of thousands of first time visitors trooping past this site is very worrying!! Yes I know they'd try again and hoard it up but far better to see work in progress.

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