Leeds

"Until the 1870s the only open space in the congested town was Woodhouse Moor”
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 28.



“It’s highlight [of The University of Leeds] , and the core of the plan, is the Rodger Stevens Building (1967-70) containing communal lecture theatres whose design acted as a prototype for Chamberlin, Powell and Bon's Barbican theatre in London.”
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p.34.


“Across the main axis is the E. C. Stoner Building, for physics, much the longest of the spine ranges; fourteen irregular bays long (mainly five stories high with vents); its elegance shows the hand of Geoffry Powell.”
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 181.


“Across the main axis is the E. C. Stoner Building, for physics, much the longest of the spine ranges; fourteen irregular bays long (mainly five stories high with vents); its elegance shows the hand of Geoffry Powell.”
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 181.





"In 1877, with Alfred Waterhouse's plans for Owen’s College Manchester, to hand, Yorkshire College appointed him as architect."
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 176


"A fund raising campaign yielded only £20,000 of a hoped for £60,000 and building was made possible only by the munificence of the Clothworkers’ Company of London, anxious to improve the scientific basis of their industry after the Paris exhibition of 1861.”
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 176


"...a limited competition was held in 1926 to bring belated civic dignity to the [university] institution… the winners were Lanchester, Lucas & Lodge. “
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p.178


“To maintain a link between their expanding campus and the city, the University lobbied successfully for the sinking of a new inner ring road (in truth an inner city motorway), opened in 1964…”
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 34



"The long awaited decision to provide the money for a tower was only made in 1856 as consequence in a growing pride in the building as it progressed and a realization, as it was claimed in the laying of the foundation stone, that it was going to be a display of 'the wealth and growing importance of the town'. At that time Leeds was actively campaigning to be appointed the West Riding Assize town, in opposition to the claims of Sheffield and Wakefield"
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 63.


“…the Henry Moore Institute of 1993 by Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones with BDP…dramatically refaced the gable end to Victoria Street with igneous rock with crenelated parapet and fissure like entrance passage.”
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 166.




"...one of the most beautiful interiors in the city. T-plan, 394ft long, and glowing with exuberant decoration in marble, mosaic and Burmantofts faience, all symbols of the city's wealth and confidence."
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 159.



Luis Vuitton shop.


"The central dome, over the crossing, dipicts figures representing Leeds' industries."
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 159.


“…the well named Dark Arches, a line of mightily red brick groined vaults covering an access tunnel beneath the railway… The richly atmospheric gloom is animated by the sounds and smells of the Aire..”
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S. Wetherall, 'Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds' (2005), p. 63.