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Architecture: I'm very proud of Covent Garden multi-storey



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Published Date: 13 May 2008
I am responding to your features page (Courier, May 9) requesting comments on modern architecture in Leamington.
I am very proud of the Covent Garden multi-storey car park because there are no columns between the spaces and it is very easy to get my car in and out.

I never use the Royal Priors car park because try as I might, I could never fit my small car
into a space because they are too narrow. I had a similar problem at the oldest multi-storey at Warwick Arts Centre.

So I hope when the council builds another one that they will copy the design of the Covent Garden car park. After all, it doesn't need to be beautiful because it is in a back street and it is purely utilitarian.

A similar argument applies to the new justice centre. It is vitally important in a modern Crown Court that witnesses, defendants and jurors are kept separate and are provided with separate rooms. That is why the 18th century building in Warwick is now totally unsuitable. Priority should be given to the needs and efficient use by the police and legal system.

I have always had a soft spot for Brandon House. I support it because it is quite elegant in that the roof line is the same as the neighbouring Victorian house and it does use geometrical shapes and symmetry as in classical architecture. The same could apply to Jephson House.

The tragedy came when they removed most of the rose bed at the front of Brandon House for parking spaces because this took away the softening element that is essential between wall and road.

My greatest hate is Marlborough House in Holly Walk because it is out of proportion with neighbouring buildings and the shape of windows bear no resemblance to Georgian ones at all.

Along with the furniture shop on the corner of Willes Road and Warwick Street they are totally alien to everying I associate with Leamington. - Mr J H Grainger, Cambridge Gardens, Upper Holly Walk, Leamington.



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