A view to flats (From York Press)

I think a far better idea - if it's almost empty - would be to flatten it!

The Ryedale building has to be one of the worst examples of 60's/70's "brutalist" architecture in York, completely spoiling the vista in the ancient Clifford's Tower/Castle area of town. Almost on a par with Stonebow House and the Park Hotel.

Surely it could be replaced with something more in keeping with its surroundings.

isnt it on stilts like the trade towers.....

its an ugly building, pull it...

SteveSCA wrote:
I think a far better idea - if it's almost empty - would be to flatten it!

The Ryedale building has to be one of the worst examples of 60's/70's "brutalist" architecture in York, completely spoiling the vista in the ancient Clifford's Tower/Castle area of town. Almost on a par with Stonebow House and the Park Hotel.

Surely it could be replaced with something more in keeping with its surroundings.

Brilliant. I am glad someone has come forward to pay for t such as yourself...

I used to work there myself in the 1980s for a firm called Pindar Infotek wjho leased the 1st floor. It was my first job. Fond memories and I would prefer if firms moved back in but I would also love to live there in a flat too.

Ryedale House looks worse than Stonebow house. Stonebow has some meriting features such as a public car park, the fact it curves around a corner, and that it's basement sinks under pavement level - in addition to Stonebow housing buisnesses the public use.

That entire slice of land from Ryedale house right up to the banana warehouse should be flattened to make way for a modern covered multi-floor shopping and leisure complex with parking on the roof, and inside being big shops that currently cannot be accommodated in York city centre, restrurants, a cinema or something like laserquest, bowling, and an ice rink (though probably only a small one)... and with an indoor link through to the travelodge. then flatten the old tram shed and have more retail/leisure space there which goes to 2 or 3 floors like the rest of the development and linked by a bridge going over the road that also has buisnesses on (a bit like how the Eldon Square development in Newcastle has a bridge over the road). All the restaurants could have their backs facing to the tower with folding doors and decked terrances suspended over the river foss but under a glass roof to provide outdoor eating with a nice view (obviously getting rid of the car park around the tower and replacing it with parkland with a nice water feature in the middle)