Wednesday 20 January 2010: Disrepair.
Leeds is a bizarre little city, one which I would say is poorly thought out, poorly managed and in short, just plain poorly.
It strives to be a modern, hip upcoming place people will travel to, for shopping and sight seeing and culture, yet goes about making that happen in all the wrong ways.
Instead of trying to beautify the city centre, add art installations or public spaces as most good cities do, our council tends to just allow another Greggs to open, or a Carphone Warehouse or yet another Wetherspoons.
Instead of trying to preserve it's assets, the beautiful buildings already in place around the city, it does one of two things:
- Allows them to be pebble dashed to match the rest of the new buildings, making them a horrid orange colour or to be let out to companies that sully the architecture with hulking, gaudy signage. (Google search Leeds Central Post Office, it was a beautiful building which many of us were proud of, it is now a poncey wine bar/fish restaurant for braying solicitors and other Gordon Gecko wannabes).
- It lets them rot. The building in this photo being an example, in fact the whole area where this building is, is abandoned and in disarray.
It really is a terrible shame.
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