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Urban regeneration company Tees Valley Regeneration unveiled the
£500m plans for Middlesbrough's Middlehaven area on Tuesday
20th July.
They
plan to develop a redundant area of Teesside into a landscape featuring
apartments, hotels, a theatre and restaurants, and some exciting
architecture in the form of a
hotel in the shape of a champagne bottle and a Space Invader-inspired
Museum of Digital Media.
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What
Middlehaven will look like
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It's
hoped the scheme will raise the town's profile and attract investment.
The development, which is backed by public and private sector investment,
will include a hotel shaped like the game Kerplunk, a toaster-shaped
theatre and restaurants built on piers.
Tees
Valley Regeneration chief executive Joe Docherty said: "The
image of the region to outsiders is not good - often our own self
image is not good.
"But
through bold, exciting and confident architecture, we can really
begin to change - and even exceed - peoples' aspirations.
"Look
at Newcastle and Gateshead. A few years ago, the quayside was incredibly
run down. Today, with the Millennium Bridge, Baltic and the Sage
music centre, it's attracting visitors from all over the world."
The
plans have been drawn up by Alsop Architects.
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Middlehaven
is the bedrock on which the future of our town will depend |
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Mayor Ray Mallon |
The
company head Will Alsop OBE said: "When we arrived in the Tees
Valley, we knew very little about the region except that it had
provided the inspiration for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner film.
"What
we found was a brave, beautiful landscape inhabited by a series
of massive objects. The development itself is the size of 250 football
pitches."
Middlesbrough
Mayor Ray Mallon said the plans will help attract developers and
entrepreneurs.
He
said: "Middlehaven is the bedrock on which the future of our
town will depend. The scale of our ambition sends an important message
out to entrepreneurs and developers that Middlesbrough is open for
business."
Regional
development agency One NorthEast and national regeneration agency
English Partnerships are also involved in the plans.
Have
your say...
What do you think of the Middlehaven plans?
BR
I have just come accross the plans for Middleehaven 'regeneration' in Middlesbrough, please dont build that, it looks to be huge a waste upon the peoples money, and also looks like it shall be impossible to maintain and keep clean, and expensive to demolish after a decade when it looks as fashionable as Slade and Spandau Ballet do today (although they looked good at the time they were created, i doubt many under 30 like this, and come to think of it, cant think many over 30 would either. There are otehr styles of modern building that dont look like giant preschool games or something out of lazy town, it really is shockingly awful the flats, the giant kerplunk next to the football stadium.the colour scheme and bumps of a migranes migrane, the pople of Teesside dont deserve to have this inflicted upon them.
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