Get Luder
Our projects piece this week looked at the regeneration of the multi-storey car park. Even brutalist parking blocks, for which the term βmonstrosityβ had previously been too good, are being saved or mourned.
Trinity Square car park in Gateshead was a celebrity of its architectural genre, famous for its part in the Michael Caine film Get Carter β¦ and had starred in this magazine before.
In 2005, besuited architect Owen Luder boarded the train to Newcastle βto confront the people of Gatesheadβ and protect the car park he had designed 40 years previously from demolition.
We set the scene: βVengeance has a new face β¦ starts May 20, a ΠΤ°Ι΅ηΜ¨ production. Starring Owen Luder as himself.β
βGET LUDERβ.
The stand-off was just as tense as the original production β one man versus the varying and not always complimentary opinions of the public.
βIβd still tear it down,β said one brave β or foolhardy β woman. To find out if anybody got chucked off the edge, click here.
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