paul cardiffwalesmap wrote:moyceyyy wrote:I went to see the site today.
I saw the comments about how small the plot was and how thin the tower would be and kept that in mind as I walked towards it.
I didnt actually realise how small the plot is! Its TINY! Like.. the size of the footprint of my house!
The start of this thread was a bit of fun - I had joked on another thread that this miniscule peice of land would be great for a tall skinny tower. Nick (Socrates) took up the challenge with a fictitious tower on the land. Obviously the powers that be at Watkin-Jones must've been looking in also
and are hopefully taking up the challenge for real! This will be a spectacular one to pull off - it will be a fair while before anything is built in Cardiff to top it!! (although hopefully not!).
Can't wait for this one!
I think that I've commented before that the original proposals were for something around 18-20 storeys high. The push to go taller was both was brought about by both economics and the council wanting something taller. I believe that their view was that if you were going to go tall, then go tall!
It's interesting, most local authorities have some sort of planning guidance on tall buildings. From memory, Cardiff's talks about the effect of new builds on existing clusters. It talks about the idea of introducing a dominant structure to an existing cluster. This seems to me that you have a policy which will constantly drive new builds upwards. It's possible that the proposed tower's for the Brains site is following this philosophy. That and they may want to make a statement.