Castlemead Tower and Broadmead Car Park – Miniature Concrete Model

Castlemead Tower and Broadmead Car Park – Miniature Concrete ModelModel 070_Castlemead Tower and Broadmead Car Park Miniature Concrete ModelHand cast in fine concrete. Shaped by memory. Some buildings tell the story of a citys rise and transformation. Castlemead Tower and the adjacent Broadmead Car Park stand together at the edge of Bristols shopping district, marking a bold moment in the citys post war regeneration. Broadmead Car Park opened in 1960, a product of Bristols post war rebuilding and the growing need

this art deco palace opened with Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade in 1930

The New Street Signal box is one of them

Working from original plans and photographs

and geometric volumes all needed to work together at a smaller scale

from the proportion of the bands to the softness of the profile needed to sit together

part of the University of Manchester estateBrief Overview:The Renold Building was an early and innovative teaching block for UMIST

South Holland

was completed in 1968 as part of the Barbican Estate

cylindrical

studied its form

I worked through several digital iterations to get the rhythm of the facade grid and the massing of the base to sit together

it originally housed young professionals and visitors before being converted into residential apartments in recent years