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Article: Divided over the civic centre
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- Plymouth Evening Herald, The
- Article date:
- June 27, 2007
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Instead of wanting to knock down the Civic Centre, Plymouth should
be proud of its 1950s heritage and confident enough to preserve it,
says Jeremy Gould, Professor of Architecture at the University of
Plymouth.
And he paints a bleak picture of the city centre without the
building that has been loved and loathed in equal parts since it was
opened in 1962, writes Political Reporter Keith Rossiter.
"Do we want another Drake Circus? Another low-grade development?"
he said yesterday.
"Do we want the city centre to be a building site for who knows
how many years?"
Plymouth City Council's plans to demolish the Civic Centre and
allow developers to put up an 'iconic' new building in its place were ...