What else could it have been? …
I read with interest this evening the following comments, on Twitter, which I’m embedding here as an additional page in the ‘Bonding Warehouse collection’. I’ve written so much about the Bonding Warehouse over the years, and particularly just recently. So it’s over to @ralphharrington — and you, dear readers, if you have thoughts to add via the comments below.
The Bonding Warehouse here in York has had its character all but destroyed in the current conversion to luxury flats. pic.twitter.com/jQ5ZPkqSCB
— Ralph Harrington (@ralphharrington) April 28, 2014
Trashy white-framed glazed doors make a mockery of the warehouse’s former loading bays with their suburban patio look pic.twitter.com/oNrJBZIlbE — Ralph Harrington (@ralphharrington) April 28, 2014
Greatest exterior vandalism: original hipped twin roofs peeping from behind decorative cornice… [pic @YorkStories] pic.twitter.com/FYPeniJwVi
— Ralph Harrington (@ralphharrington) April 28, 2014
…replaced by overscale skyline-wrecking flat-topped tile-hung horror with mean little industrial estate windows. pic.twitter.com/dBE8a5cbEl — Ralph Harrington (@ralphharrington) April 28, 2014
Bonding Warehouse conversion amounts to crass money-driven vandalism, and it’s a disgrace that @CityofYork permitted it. A tragedy for #York
— Ralph Harrington (@ralphharrington) April 28, 2014
Your thoughts, dear readers, are welcome.
