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Usually posting about Cardiff and Urbanism

[G @gomedia91]

Some of my favourite lost architecture of Cardiff - 1) Boots Queen St

[Nadezna Mandhari @MandhariNadezna]

Cardiff Bay, Wales

@S4Ctywydd
@WalesOnline
@BBCOneShow

Evening of 9th November 2026

[Lawrence Hourahane @lhourahane]

St. Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff

[tom 🎸 @uncreativetom]

wow I wonder if this will work in any other cities with underperforming shopping streets that are also trying to be travel corridors for motorised vehicles

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Oxford Street has seen a 28% spending increase since it was pedestrianised two weeks ago

[Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes]

For some reason a large proportion of Britain's top brownfield designs come from this one small firm in Stockport.

[Martjan Kuit @MartjanKuit]

Echt knap hoe snel iets eruit kan zien alsof het alweer bijna afgebroken gaat worden...

Winnaar van de Stadsbouwprijs Amersfoort 2024.

[tom 🎸 @uncreativetom]

I like when public transit advertising is clear and simple like this rather than trying to make every journey seem like some sort of magical adventure

[Jamie H @wight1984]

I don't really understand why we don't pile housing atop of high street buildings. It's just unused space, and it takes nothing away from anyone to give people the option of living above shops.

[G @gomedia91]

@ceritheviking Possibly. I know it was left in a terrible state sadly.

[G @gomedia91]

@ceritheviking An older version of that building burned down. It looked like this. Slightly different design.

The building in your image was what replaced it - then purposefully demolished for the 70s for the Maritime Museum

[G @gomedia91]

@ceritheviking Painfully slow.

[G @gomedia91]

Very shortsighted to demolish The Wharf. I always liked it. The faux-warehouse look was well done, had a lot of potential for a different use. I'm almost certain they could have built flats in all the unused land/car parks around it without demolishing it.

[G @gomedia91]

Hadn't checked on this scheme for Bute East Dock in a while. Latest version from July looks very nice. It's a shame The Wharf pub was demolished, it would have worked really well alongside these (26/00631/FUL)

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

In Japan you will often see cafes and small shops with a small triangle shaped entrance cut into the front of the shop. The purpose is to soften the abrupt difference between shop interior and outside street and give customers a sheltered spot to sort out their umbrellas etc. It looks instantly welcoming and intimate. Here is a cozy cafe in Tokyo. The two chairs outside are for customers to wait their turn outside if the cafe is full. This is a tiny example of #GoodUrbanism on narrow streets and making the most of otherwise bland straight shop fronts.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

A 200 space parking lot in NoHo will now be 200 homes. One stored car now equals one home. More of this, please.

[G @gomedia91]

10 YEARS!
Poets Corner, City Rd, Cardiff - demolished in August 2016.
Left vacant, doing nothing, for over a DECADE.
Just one example of a planning system that is not fit for purpose.
Developers should not be allowed to just tear up the urban fabric & leave it without consequence

[G @gomedia91]

Surely a smaller Welsh Gov building would be better suited to the Bay close to the Senedd? - with Council moving back to Cathays Park occupying part of Crown Buildings? Perhaps moving the Magistrates Court from Adamsdown into the other portion? Much more centralised/accessible.

[G @gomedia91]

Better than the previous design I suppose.
Still, I think Council should be moving back to the City Centre.
Council services should be easily accessible to the highest amount of residents as possible. As close to Central train/bus station as possible.

[Nation.Cymru @NationCymru]

New images have revealed how a council’s proposed £60m headquarters could look, but the building’s design has drawn criticism from residents https://t.co/sWyITaBKTN

[Arka Serezh @ArkaSerezh]

In Britain, building a new glass box attracts zero VAT

Repairing a historic stone building attracts 20%

The tax system has been actively incentivising demolition over restoration since 1994

Every time a developer weighs up whether to repair an old building or knock it down and start again, the government adds 20% to the cost of doing the right thing

@createstreets and others have been calling for VAT parity on listed building repairs for years

It has not happened yet