Comments on: Demolition of Gateshead’s Get Carter car park starts today

By: Soult's Retail View » Construction work well underway at Gateshead’s Trinity Square

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:13:05 +0000

[...] and its detractors. When I blogged about the scheme back in July last year, one reader, Seamaster, lamented the demolition of Owen Luder’s iconic car park, while James lambasted my assessment that “the Tesco store is properly integrated, visually [...]

By: Soult's Retail View » Ambitious Tyne Bridge mall plans to be unveiled

Soult's Retail View » Ambitious Tyne Bridge mall plans to be unveiled — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:25:09 +0000

[...] By filling in the missing link between the centres, the scheme will create a 1.5-mile-long retail and leisure thoroughfare stretching from Newcastle’s Northumberland Street to Gateshead High Street, and connecting the planned retail-led regeneration of Aldersgate’s East Pilgrim Street site in Newcastle with Spenhill’s Trinity Square redevelopment in Gateshead. [...]

By: Soult's Retail View » Has Britain fallen out of love with Tesco?

Soult's Retail View » Has Britain fallen out of love with Tesco? — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:38:38 +0000

[...] too big – and too powerful – is widely held, not least here in the North East where it owns much of Gateshead town centre and holds the key to the centre’s long-awaited regeneration. There are clearly some shoppers [...]

By: James

James — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:21:11 +0000

“the Tesco store is properly integrated, visually and physically, into a wider scheme that is bold and modern”

What a pile of toss. For comments on ‘properly integrated, visually and physically’ see CABEs comments that discredited the integration and scale of the design.

And as for ‘bold and modern’ – the car park was both of them. The 3dRied proposals are more like ‘underwhelming and mediocre urban sprawl’. There is nothing bold or modern about the proposals.

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Demolition underway – photos of Gateshead’s Get Carter car park today

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:48:32 +0000

[...] my blog post about Gateshead’s Get Carter car park this morning, I suggested that “…it seems hard to believe that the car park is finally going [...]

By: Seamaster

Seamaster — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:16:25 +0000

I’ll be sorry to see it gone. I have an apartment in Newcastle that faces south-east and it’s the highlight of my view. I know it’s a ghastly building that’s never been fit for purpose, but as a movie buff and a Geordie, I can’t help thinking that a unique element of our shared cultural and architectural heritage is being obliterated.