High-rise Hungate (From York Press)

High-rise Hungate

11:06am Friday 6th June 2008

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The first public unveiling of the Council's new home at Hungate is revealed. They (we) wanted it to be iconic - a real statement as a building to house the Council in the new Millennium. But, oh no! It looks like a Council building all right! It looks as deeply unattractive and impersonal as a Council building thrown up by joyless mordernists in the 1960s. Have the architects taken Stonebow House as their cue for the design?

I'm appalled that we don't seem to have moved on from the hideous block of the 60s when the potential for exciting modern architecture is out there.

Okay, the green roof, rainwater harvesting and heating/cooling mechanisms are to be welcomed, but York deserves better than another cruddy concrete box.

More chronic than iconic I'm afraid.