Building Britain - focusing on Brighton, on BBC in a second

[REDLAND]

Should be interesting

 

[Robot Chicken]

HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Building Britain
Channel: BBC 1 South 101
Date: Monday 18th June 2007
Time: 22:35 to 23:05 (starting in 1 minute)
Duration: 30 minutes.
Journalist and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe makes a passionate plea for people in his home town of Brighton and Hove to stop complaining and accept the exciting new developments taking place in the city. He focuses on three high profile building projects that will radically alter Brighton's seafront.
(Widescreen, Subtitles)
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[Bry Nylon]

Hmm, where I live I get the one about London....

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Building Britain
Channel: BBC 1 South 101
Date: Monday 18th June 2007
Time: 22:35 to 23:05 (starting in 1 minute)
Duration: 30 minutes.
Journalist and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe makes a passionate plea for people in his home town of Brighton and Hove to stop complaining and accept the exciting new developments taking place in the city. He focuses on three high profile building projects that will radically alter Brighton's seafront.

That'll be reassuring for the people from 'his' home town who can no longer afford to live within thirty miles of the place

 

[folkestonesgull]

i think thats the point

 

[folkestonesgull]

thought it was pretty good..though a very one sided argument. Shame the stadium want mentioned

 

[Lord Bracknell]

a very one sided argument

One sided?

Excellent. The case for these three projects was put very clearly - let the anti-everything Regency Society find their own outlet for their NIMBYism.

 

[Gully]

I watched it and thought that it was pretty good, focussing on three developments and highlighting the fact that the city was built on schemes that were themselves considered radical. Love the look of all three, particularly the Gehry builidings on the site of the King Alfred, will be a stunning addition to the skyline. What planet was that woman who he met at Hove town hall from, bet she belongs to the flat earth society, also liked his banana analogy...how about this one - LDC, let down constituents!

 

[Robot Chicken]

Hove Town Hall itself is a monstrosity!

Lest we forget the old, original Hove Town Hall

and the hideous new one

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Hove Town Hall itself is a monstrosity!


and the hideous new one

What's the betting it's a listed building now? Still, nothing a mystery fire couldn't solve eh? Allegedly. Obviously. Anybody got a number for The Noble Organisation? :

 

[Gully]

That really is one ugly building, must have been related to the tricorn centre in Pompey.

 

[pasty]

I like the idea of all three of the developments featured, although from a purely personal point of view, I don't much like those funny looking towers planned for the King Alfred site. Still, I live at the other end of town so pah!

 

[Robot Chicken]

The Tricorn Centre:

More here: http://www.retrowow.co.uk/architecture/60s/tricorn/tricorn16.jpg

Not nice. Not nice at all. 1966-2004.

 

[Robot Chicken]

I like the idea of all three of the developments featured, although from a purely personal point of view, I don't much like those funny looking towers planned for the King Alfred site. Still, I live at the other end of town so pah!

I live nearby and will be going past it every day. When I heard there wasn't going to be a cinema as part of the redevelopment I lost interest. Just as long as they don't block the road I don't care.