Golden Bridge Over Oystermouth Road

[Squarebear]

https://coprbayswansea.com/news-media/timelapse-videos/

That's certainly the most golden bridge I've ever seen.

The graffiti artists will be creaming their pants.

 

[Monty]

https://streamable.com/mz0apl

 

[Jinxy]

I think it's really helped to have a council leader who engages with people over social media - Rob Stewart deserves quite a bit of credit IMO

Things definitely seem to be improving as opposed to the decades of stagnation I've mostly known. It's encouraging to see that the council have grasped early that Covid and the Internet have changed everything. Not hard to imagine administrations past throwing everything into rejigging the shopping centre when things have moved past that.

As I mentioned above Dr, the decisions and project plan, securing funding, design etc. would have been in place some time before covid appeared on the scene. Relocating the civic offices to the city centre is also long overdue imo, stimulating hospitality etc. in the city centre, and freeing up the existing location in its prime spot.

I believe the investment (regardless of how the strategy came about) is sound in the strange new world that awaits us.

 

[Jack2jack]

Right then first impressions, please, thank you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56307466

 

[Monty]

Right then first impressions, please, thank you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56307466

Looks completely out of place and will be covered in graffiti within 6 months

 

[J_B]

I like it. It’s something different to the mundane concrete bridges that are everywhere.

 

[westside]

Looks like something off Doctor Who :ugeek:

Wonder if the gold will reflex in the sunlight

 

[Jack2jack]

I've got be be honest, I don't like it.
It's to chintzy. Not for me, all about opinions.

 

[Monty]

If everything around it wasn't so grey, drab and like something out of the 1970s it would look a bit better. Do that and put Abertawe in big white letters on kilvey hill :lol:

It's like they've put fancy new curtains on a broken window

 

[JackSomething]

If everything around it wasn't so grey, drab and like something out of the 1970s it would look a bit better. Do that and put Abertawe in big white letters on kilvey hill :lol:

It's like they've put fancy new curtains on a broken window

That was my first thought too. Is any bridge going to look good with the multi-storey behind it? Perhaps it will look good against the fancy new arena when it's finished?

Personally, I'd have liked something with a more classical look. A bigger version of the old Slip Bridge would have been great and would have honoured the city's past.

Then again, I think most post-war buildings look rubbish and would prefer we make all new buildings look more like the city would have before the Luftwaffe flattened most of it. Perhaps growing up in the 80's when post-modernism was all the rage in architecture makes me long for more of the classical buildings of the past.

 

[eteb]

from other board -what the f**k is that :nauseated_face: :nauseated_face:

what is the council's obsession with hideous coloured things? The investment in the city is great but the new flats and buildings are ridiculou coloured monstrosities. A bright gold bridge alongside a new apartment block with multi coloured windows ffs

 

[Monty]

from other board -what the f**k is that :nauseated_face: :nauseated_face:

what is the council's obsession with hideous coloured things? The investment in the city is great but the new flats and buildings are ridiculou coloured monstrosities. A bright gold bridge alongside a new apartment block with multi coloured windows ffs

It's copper innit

 

[eteb]

i think it would be better if the bildings around it werent multi coloured which appears to be the councils new obsession. Driving into city centre from fabian way before you get to the quay parade bridge you can see the blocks in the distance all multi coloured. Looks like a fucking lego set ffs

 

[WxmJax]

Right then first impressions, please, thank you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56307466

Some wag will tell the locals that it's the sun and they'll believe them because they've got nothing to compare it with

 

[Best_loser]

Looks a bit like a ford Sierra , I like it