Closure Date
According to the BBC, the car park will close on June 8th, but the date for the demolition is yet to be announced. So there’s still time to get into the car park and take some pictures.
I get the impression the place will still be standing for a good few months yet.
2004 interview with Owen Luder
There’s a 2004 Radio 4 interview with architect Owen Luder (Realplayer) about the demolition of the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth. No doubt Radio 4 will have him on again to give the same interview about the Trinity Centre.
Interestingly, Luder sounds a bit like Michael Caine.
They paved paradise, and pulled down a parking lot
Cameras everywhere… by Sam Judson, on Flickr
The Trinity Centre was a building for a future that never happened; one which would see Gateshead as a major shopping and leisure destination, where people could spend the day at the shops, finish it off with drinks at the top level restaurant, maybe have a little dance, then [...]