Some pictures of St Davids 2
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Udo Erasmus
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You have a helicopter?
lewislewis
Lumumba Cymru
Great pictures!
King Biscuit Time
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s and £5 a t-shirt shops up and down Queen st
I hope they've got that brilliant one with Bart Simpson pissing on an England Flag, and the one that says 'I support two teams, Wales, and whoever England are playing'.
If the rents on Queen Street get cheap enough I'm seriously going to move back to Cardiff and open KBT's world of pink glittery cowboy hats. I'll make a mint!
Threshers_Flail
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Its going to be fucking horrific. Why cant we leave all the huge shopping complexes to other identikit cities?
Better still let them build one in the valleys, more space for building and the investment would be needed.
Better still let them build one in the valleys, more space for building and the investment would be needed.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Jamie Oliver is going to have a resturant there.
Along with designers Hugo Boss and Kurt Geiger, as well as shirt-maker TM Lewin and clothes shop Reiss.
Somehow I don't think its going to be most Urbs' cup o earl grey.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...-oliver-to-open-cardiff-diner-91466-22185687/
Along with designers Hugo Boss and Kurt Geiger, as well as shirt-maker TM Lewin and clothes shop Reiss.
Somehow I don't think its going to be most Urbs' cup o earl grey.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...-oliver-to-open-cardiff-diner-91466-22185687/
Myself and the girlfriend were talking about this the other day. OK it is still under construction but already it is looking pretty bad.
The High-rises going up on Bute Terrace are the worst (mid-high value) residential towers I have ever seen in an urban setting in the past 20 years. shocking!!
The cladding on the shopping developments on the other side is pretty offensive two. That metal cladding on the library!!!!!!! what the fuck! We couldn't tell if it was copper that will go green (which isn't bad) but at the moment it looks well tacky and there has been a really poor job of finishing it.
The incongruity (height wise) of that building to the others on mill lane is a bit off putting too. Although we'll have to wait till the others are finished to get an idea of the grading. etc.
There was an opportunity to do something unique.... bit of a mess overall.
it's funny that they include a Wagamamma and a gourmet Burger place. These are already in the bay. Ok they may get bigger space but it underlines the lack of imagination and creativity in the whole development.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
yeah! an dthey champion it as 'exiting and exclusinve news' front page of the paper etc
ITS A FUCKING CHAIN ffs
If I had to guess what that building was from the front I'd say: municipal swimming pool circa 1973. I prefer the gold/copper view from the back. Some of the cladding looks a bit buckled in places, mind.
The tackiest part of the building, though, is the red lettering on the front. Looks sh*te. One good point: the new library blocks out the view of the even uglier Holiday Inn.
As for the St David's 2 - it's blocking out the sun. When you sit down for a coffee now at the Hayes Island snack bar, it is always winter. Brrrrrr.
you just know all the large stores on Queen St will want to move into this, then we will end up with loads of pound shops and £5 a t-shirt shops up and down Queen st
There's already a Spar on the corner.
spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
yup, and the halloween/crimbo shop the other end...
soon 4 lights for a pound and fake watched will be all you can buy on queen st, or coffee from one of the 4 fucking starbucks.
Threshers_Flail
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I know I saw that today. A nice looking oldie store front covered in fucking glass! Very short sighted decision, how they are allowed to do it I don't know.
Clint Iguana
not an undercover cop
Taken from the roof of my office like..
do you work for british gas?
Ranbay
The same rules apply
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
costing millions as well
they had teams of temp cleaners brushing the dust off clothes during the refit inside when they;d taken the ceilings out and were still open
lewislewis
Lumumba Cymru
Brilliant! All that empty retail space waiting to be vandalised as the recession ensures that there aren't many tenants.
Thank god for more shops and luxury flats! Cardiff really needed them
46% full so far and alot of them are duplicates of Queen Street stores apparently.
remedial_gash
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Nice one luvs, let's wipe out anything that made Cardiff different from the other identikit cities!
I suppose we still have our arcades, but if everyone's in that fucking monstrosity, who'll visit?
A two tier shitty?
Yay!
Gash
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I suppose we still have our arcades, but if everyone's in that fucking monstrosity, who'll visit?
A two tier shitty?
Yay!
Gash
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