....It's absurd that something so remarkable should be destroyed" (Owen Hatherley, writing about the 'Get Carter' car park in Gateshead in
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. Now the Bank of England at the bottom of Pilgrim Streeet has great chunks taken out of it. The Bank is a stunning design, Battlestar Galactica re-shaped in the same stone as St Paul's Cathedral. And part of this loss will be the 'Leap of Faith' drop, a rite of passge amongst local skaters (and some in-lines too) and the very spot that kicked off this defence of street sports in the city ia few years back. In case this gets too miserable the Urban Games Launch was a fine mix of dance, bicycle powered smoothies, parkour and emergency pizzas.
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