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Loading ...Demolition is being carried out at the infamous Owen Luder designed “Get Carter” car park in Gateshead.
Film fans the world over were wowed by Michael Cain’s antics in the unfinished monster, which was to have included a rooftop restaurant, if rather less impressed by the surroundings.
Now after lingering on the skyline for decades the cinematic relic of the sixties is to be consigned to celluloid.
Despite some interest in preserving the brutalist structure, recently lent some muscle by Sylvester Stallone, the monolith was regarded as a white elephant locally.
It’s replacement is however unlikely to reach such levels of iconicity, featuring a mixed-use development for Tesco designed by 3DReid.
Image taken by loodealer at flickr.
The car park is still there (at present)!
I live in Gateshead and am very sad at the loss of the Trinity Square car park that is being demolished in the town centre. I am 38 years old and the structure has stood proud towering over Gateshead centre for all of my life.
I am an avid fan of all things ’60’s and believe that the thought of people in the 60’s demolishing structures from the ’20’s would now be frowned upon, although all things from the ’60’s are currently being demolished with indecent haste.
I particularly like the car park as the design is unusual, itself being a ramp rather than levels with a ramp ’stuck’ on the side, it’s such a shame that the area on the top was never allowed to realise it’s full potential as the view is outstanding.
Dear Gateshead:
Should you happen to hear the word ‘progressive’ issue from the mouths of architects in the near future, make sure to keep your ‘collective hands’ on your ‘collective wallet’.
another stunning 60s building consigned to the dusbin. Gateshead council bunch of philistines, someone with an amoebas brain of intelligence could have kept this as a functioning car park and used the spaces up top for some sort of cultral activity, if you dont believe it check out what they do each summer with a much less interesting structure down in sunny Peckham south London.
I can just imagine the hideous shite that will replace it.