Property News · September 10, 2011

Let's move to Wakefield, West Yorkshire


A lorra ring roads, retail parks and fag packet tower blocksWhat’s going for it? The new Margate, despite the lack of sea, or sand, or, indeed, Our Tracey. Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, has name-checked Wakefield, along with Margate and Folkestone as the most marvellous examples of arts-led regeneration. While Wakefield may be the lesser for its lack of a prom-prom-prom, tiddly-om-pom-pom, its new Hepworth art gallery, by Sir David Chipperfield, is rather a cut above, glowering above the rushing river Calder, Yorkshire style, in heather-grey concrete. Talk of arts-led regeneration is a little cart before the horse in Wakefield – it’s been arty for years. The place hardly wants for pedigree, with the astonishing Yorkshire Sculpture Park down the road, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth on the local birth register, a new market hall by superstarchitect David Adjaye and a council with a sturdy history of buying and supporting local art. Though Wakefield never metamorphosed into Hampstead or St Ives. Nor is it likely to. This is a rugby league, rough and tumble kind of place, with few airs and graces. Bit like Hepworth herself.The case against A lorra lorra ring roads, retail parks and fag packet tower blocks. The town’s no beauty. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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