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Wasn't there a student accommodation block built next to Birmingham City University during the 2000s (or possibly even later?) which has recently been demolished to make way for HS2?
If you’re talking Darlington, the old ground Feethams had a brand new main stand in 1997/8, closed in 2003 and demolished in 2006!Nene Park, Irthlingborough (Rushden & Diamonds and later Kettering Town) and the Don Valley Stadium (athletics, Sheffield Eagles RL, Rotherham United, Sheffield FC & others) are two more examples of modern sports grounds which didn't last all that long.
I wonder how long the Reynolds Arena un Darlington will last? This is surely England's biggest sporting white elephant given Darlo fans antipathy to the place.
Yes, and part of the city centre campus of Sheffield Hallam University, opposite Sheffield station, is currently being redeveloped. AFAIK the previous buildings on that site were only built in the 1980s or '90s.One of Sheffield University's buildings was demolished due to subsidence even before it was completed - https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk...-science-hub-to-be-knocked-down-and-restarted - original building work started in summer 2019 and then everything was pulled down in autumn 2020.
They have however since corrected the foundations and rebuilt the building from scratch.
I can't remember what it was called, but as I recall it was round the back of the building that houses one of the university canteens, roughly opposite the former university tower and round the side of the Goethe Galerie shopping centre. That could well be the "Neue Mitte Jena" one that you're referring to.Do you know which one it was? I know Jena fairly well, and the only one that comes to mind is the 'Neue Mitte Jena' one.
Lidl are going through the phase of demolishing new-ish stores to be replaced with bigger ones. For example, its Ferndown store originally opened in 2003 but that has now been cleared to make way for a bigger new-build opening later this year.
Yes, completed in 2008 and closed in 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_GateWasn't there a student accommodation block built next to Birmingham City University during the 2000s (or possibly even later?) which has recently been demolished to make way for HS2?
Similarly The Tesco extra store in Dudley was built in 2010 on the site of a demolished smaller Tesco which was only built around 20 years prior.I can't remember where, but I read somewhere that Lidl buildings are only designed to have a 20 year life span.
I remember one year being on holiday in Cornwall and using Tesco in Helston. A couple of years later we went back and called at Tesco but felt slightly disorientated. In the intervening period they had built a new, bigger store on the other side of the car park and demolished the original one to restore the car parking.Similarly The Tesco extra store in Dudley was built in 2010 on the site of a demolished smaller Tesco which was only built around 20 years prior.
That’s intriguing to know, so presumably most of the original purpose-built stored will have exceeded the end of their life, if there are still any. IIRC the first UK branch opened in around 1995 or so.I can't remember where, but I read somewhere that Lidl buildings are only designed to have a 20 year life span.
I think It was originally built as the Sheffield science park, as you say in the late 1980's. The district heating people used some of it, then Hallam took it over.Yes, and part of the city centre campus of Sheffield Hallam University, opposite Sheffield station, is currently being redeveloped. AFAIK the previous buildings on that site were only built in the 1980s or '90s.
That’s intriguing to know, so presumably most of the original purpose-built stored will have exceeded the end of their life, if there are still any. IIRC the first UK branch opened in around 1995 or so.
Ah, yes, one of many sad victims after the 14-week steel strike in 1980. Almost certainly the shortest lived.Chapel Bank induction furnace plant at Workington steelworks. Completed in 1980 at a cost of over £10m, royal visit organised to open it, but was never brought into use and demolished in 1982.
On a similar note - not a demolition, but I have been wondering why the "brown tourist signs" in the Sheffield vicinity have had the "Olympic Legacy Park" plated over...Nene Park, Irthlingborough (Rushden & Diamonds and later Kettering Town) and the Don Valley Stadium (athletics, Sheffield Eagles RL, Rotherham United, Sheffield FC & others) are two more examples of modern sports grounds which didn't last all that long.
Not too sure, looks like mid 80s to mid 90s to meThe Sainsbury’s at Nine Elms was demolished to make way for the new Northern Line station. Wonder when that was built?
The original Sainsbury's at Nine Elms, London, which was demolished in the mid 2010s, had been there for over 30 years. (The opening date having been Tuesday 9th February 1982, apparently, this as determined by various adverts the month before for new part time shop staff).The Sainsbury’s at Nine Elms was demolished to make way for the new Northern Line station. Wonder when that was built?
Another Gorbals social housing scheme fits this thread, but isn't quite as extreme in terms of how short-lived it ended up being: Queen Elizabeth Square aka Hutchesontown Area E, designed by Basil Spence of Coventry Cathedral fame. Ready for occupancy in 1965, overhauled in 1987/1988, condemned and emptied in early 1993 and demolished in September that year, flying debris killing a spectator in the process and injuring four others (as it turned out, the demolition contractor had used twice the amount of explosives than was needed to bring the towers down).Quite a few of the least successful housing developments dating from the 60s/70s could qualify for this thread.
The 12 7-story deck access blocks of the Hutchesontown Area E development (known locally as Hutchie E) in the Gorbals area of Glasgow stand out however: opened in 1972 by Queen Elizabeth, finished in 1974, completely empty by 1982 and completely demolished by the end of 1987. The development also had two 24-story 'point' blocks that lasted until July 2013 when they were brought down via implosion.
Hutchesontown/Part Gorbals Comprehensive Development Area: Area 'E' | Tower Block
www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk
I think it was retained initially as it was also where the ramped access up from the station building appeared, but they’ve since added another bigger building further along the platform. The current Google aerial view shows it was still present at the time the realignment was complete and in use. But there’s also a later “Streetview“ across from the east side access road that shows the new brick building that you mention, and that is much larger; and the original building at the access has been rebuilt in brick and is now smaller than before.I'm not sure of this assertion and I might be mistaken.
Some years ago a new waiting room was built on the Down platform at Market Harrbotough. It was some distance back from the platform edge and at an angle to the track alignment. If it was raining there was no shelter for passengers crossing the platform to join the train.The apparently eccentric location was, I thought, explained by 'it will be in the right position when we do the re-alignment for high speed'.
But, at some time during the recent re-modelling with that aim, it disappeared. There is a building on the down platform, but I'm pretty sure it's not the old one.
I may be completely wrong, I didn't take that much notice when the trains I was on stopped there - I would just like to know.