Architect's call to transform city's 'area of purgatory'
Jun 8 2006
Staff Reporter, South Wales Echo
Cardiff should have a new trendy quarter to link the city centre and the
Bay, according to the architect who designed the Wales Millennium Centre.
Jonathan Adams said the area between the south of the city centre and
north of the Bay 'has all the appeal of purgatory' and could be
transformed into a creative quarter.
'We need to produce a fully functioning, connecting corridor as a
vibrant and active part of the city,' said Mr Adams. 'One day there will
be no more reason to complain about the journey from city to bay,
because there will no longer be a gap to traverse.' He said the problem
with travelling from the centre to the Bay was not actually getting
there, but the use of the land along the various routes.
Writing in the Institute of Welsh Affairs' journal, Agenda, he suggested
Dumballs Road could be transformed with new homes, school, shops, parks
and studios.
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