G @gomedia91

Usually posting about Cardiff and Urbanism Cardiff, Wales Joined June 2019

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G @gomedia91

a week ago

Biggest missed opportunities to create something special for Cardiff in my lifetime. Prime location, a landmark people of Cardiff feel a connection to - just squandered on soulless copy/paste blocks with no regard for the site. Heritage should have been celebrated, not hidden.

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G @gomedia91

a week ago

We could have had them in brick. Still wouldn't have won any awards - but at least would have tied in better to brewery + been a bit less of an eyesore. Instead we got the one with maximum cost-engineering, to ensure maximum investor return, with maximum disregard for the site.

I Loves The ‘Diff @ILovesTheDiff

a week ago

The 1970s called. They want their ropey colour scheme back.

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Cheltenham Civic Society @CheltCivicSoc

3 weeks ago

Bring back shop awnings.

Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani

3 weeks ago

Bring back bay windows!

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G @gomedia91

3 weeks ago

I often think "what if" the Victorian's designed these 5G Masts you see going up everywhere. They cared about their streetscapes - going as far as to design ornate "stink pipes" for venting sewers (a number of which are now listed!) I can't see any of our 5G towers being listed.

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G @gomedia91

a month ago

@tomhfh The Wales Act 1978 proposed Welsh Assembly meet at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff's docklands - (Not City Hall you've pictured) Place where the first recorded £1million business deal was struck + which played a vital role in Wales' coal industry - half of which is crumbling away.

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Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes

2 months ago

~50 bays, 8 storeys, a massive slab of flats, 400 windows on one huge plane. And yet, this 1930s building looks pretty good. Why? Part of the answer is the use of the classical language to visually structure and humanise the enormous bulk. Vertically, the lower ground floor is distinguished as a visual 'plinth' with stone facing, and the upper ground is then marked off with a string course (a band of stonework). The middle three storeys are grouped as an 'implied order' between the string course and the cornice. Above the cornice is an 'attic' storey, and then there are two storeys in the roof. No storey is an exact duplicate of another; each plays a different role in the ensemble. If you cut out any one of them, the proportions of the others would look slightly wrong. Horizontally the facade is broken down into a five-part composition (only four parts are visible in the photo), with three 'pavilions' distinguished from the linking wings by richer ornamental treatment. Again, this means that each bay plays an indispensable part in the whole. If you sliced off the final bay, the whole 50-bay building would look wrong. You might be able to cut a bay or two from one of the wings without people noticing, but pretty quickly the lopsidedness would become obvious. At the time of its construction, this building would have been seen as extremely mechanical and monotonous relative to the kind of architecture then admired. But there is a sense in which the classical language is seen at its best in cases like this, where it makes a basically repetitive and monotonous building type markedly less relentless than it would otherwise be.

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G @gomedia91

2 months ago

While Im glad to see pavement resurfacing going on around Roath - it would have been nicer to see a surface colour other than jet black. I can understand the move away from slabs to asphalt on cost/maintenance grounds - it makes sense - but I just wish we didn't always use black!

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G @gomedia91

2 months ago

It’s nice to see Cardiff celebrating a piece of its history. Just a shame the building they’re proud of is still sitting empty years after all that money was spent renovating it. Surely a permanent use could be found by now?

Roath Local History Society @RoathHistory

2 months ago

Nice to see the new Roath Park Heritage Trail taking shape. This information board of outside Roath Park House and gives information on the Pettigrew family.

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Robert Kwolek @RobertKwolek

2 months ago

As part of a £36m project, dozens of building were restored as part of the High Street 2012 scheme. Here's one of the best examples, on Whitechapel High Street, by the contractor @payestonework. Funding came from the Mayor, DCLG, LTGDC, Lottery Fund, English Heritage and TfL.

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Sensitive Young Saxon @SYS_04_

2 months ago

@RoyalFineArt And this gopping horrible eyesore of a home will only set you back half a million!

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Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall

3 months ago

75 new social housing apartments in Glebe, Sydney A cross laminated timber (CLT) structure, robust brick cladding, stunning recessed brick balconies, fully-electric and 6 star green star rating. Would *love* to see more housing like this! By JPW Architects

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Yeah But Cyclists @but_cyclists

3 months ago

A trained and licensed motorist fails to spot a cyclist after they come out of nowhere dressed all in black with no high vis or lights

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Liverpool Vista @LiverpoolVista

3 months ago

Oriel Chambers, Water Street, Liverpool was completed in 1864 and is often overlooked but its significance is immense. Designed by local architect Peter Ellis, it was a radical departure from the heavy, load-bearing masonry of its time. With its pioneering use of an iron frame and huge projecting bay windows (the "oriels"), it maximised natural light and space – a true precursor to modern curtain-wall construction and the skyscrapers we see today.

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Atalanta @thinkaboutglue

3 months ago

One of the best public art projects I've seen. Grim park shelter turned into glorious roman-style mosaic menagerie, by the Hackney Mosaic Project.

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ceri @ceritheviking

3 months ago

Taken ages to get these that work so well elsewhere. But Cardiff have the most expensive charges? Cardiff’s new ‘bike hangars’ cost more to rent here than anywhere else in the UK – and more than a car parking permit – The Cardiffian journalism-school.cardiff.ac.uk/thecardiffian/…

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team NotLeafy @NotLeafy

3 months ago

Appalling these trees endangered "by mistakes made" during the cycleway's construction. Mature trees' value can't be overstated in mitigating heat & poor air quality. Active travel? Shade here makes full-sun walking possible. @CardiffCivicSoc @DeAthCardiff nation.cymru/news/beautiful…

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ceri @ceritheviking

3 months ago

This building, Cory building?, is looking fantastic as part of the refurb and renovations. Fair play. Great to see

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Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 @DuncanStott

3 months ago

It's okay but it's no Thanet Parkway.

Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall

3 months ago

Surely one of the most remarkable stations built this century? The “Centro Direzionale” underground station designed by EMBT in Naples. Designed to be like a “stroll through the woods"

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createstreets @createstreets

3 months ago

New building in Oxford Street, central London. Hopeful.

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G @gomedia91

3 months ago

If you want a permit to park a car in Cardiff - £35 for the year. If you want to securely store a bike in Cardiff - £120 for the year. As far as I can tell, the most expensive cycle hangar scheme in the entire UK! For comparison; Bristol £55, Bath £60, S. Gloucestershire £72 Why?

Cardiff Council @cardiffcouncil

3 months ago

New secure Bikehangars are being installed across Cardiff. 17 hangars – each holding 6 bikes – will be added to residential streets in Canton, Riverside, Plasnewydd, Cathays and Splott this month, making cycling easier and more secure. More here: orlo.uk/Yd1Ko