A top architect has criticised Plymouth’s controversial Beckley Point skyscraper – but says there are even worse looking buildings being built in the city. Graham Lobb, one of Plymouth’s best known and most respected architects, says the 23-storey student block, at North Cross, deserves its place on a list of Britain’s ugliest buildings but stressed: “There is worse to come I’m afraid.” Mr Lobb, the award winning designer behind eye-catching buildings at Oceansgate and Union Street, said the under-construction Crescent Point student towers, at the Crescent, and the planned 20-floor Sugar Quay apartment block at Sutton Harbour will outclass Beckley Point in the grotesqueness stakes. Pulling no punches called the 14-storey, £16million, under-construction Crescent Point “a complete abortion”. And he continued: “Sutton Harbour is under threat from a similar intervention.” Waterfront regeneration specialist Sutton Harbour Holdings plc has handed Plymouth City Council plans to develop the prime Sugar Quay site with a tiered t-shaped, 20-storey tower, aimed to be ready by 2022. Mr Lobb, founder of Plymouth practice Form Design, stressed that “bigger isn’t always better” and fears Plymouth could get even more unnecessarily tall and unsightly buildings. “Plymouth could be faced with more incoherent tall buildings that seem to… Read full this story
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