24-763: Trinity Square may refer to: Trinity Square (Gateshead) , a shopping centre in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England Trinity Square (Nottingham) , a shopping centre in Nottingham, England Trinity Square Gardens, a garden square (also known as Tower Hill ) north of the Tower of London , England Trinity Square (Toronto) , a public square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Red Square , in Moscow, Russia, known as Trinity Square in
48-523: A new town centre shopping complex. During the 1980s and 1990s, there were various proposals to redevelop the car park as a contemporary art gallery or events venue (and in 1983 Charlie Hooker and the Newcastle-based Basement Group organised Mainbeam – a ballet for vehicles there), but as the structure was regarded as a civic white elephant , these all met with local resistance. The building remained un listed . The building
72-466: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Trinity Square (Gateshead) Trinity Square is a shopping and leisure centre in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , England. The new centre was constructed on the site of former multi-storey car park and shopping complex going by the same name, which originally opened in 1967. The former Trinity Square
96-494: The Gateshead Interchange , a bus and metro transport hub, combined with changes to town centre access for private motorists, made the car park largely redundant. Its deteriorating condition also led to the 1995 decision to close the upper parking levels. In the late 1990s Tesco acquired an interest in the site and in 2008 work began to redevelop the entire Trinity Square site and the existing Tesco supermarket into
120-661: The Michael Faraday Memorial at Elephant and Castle . In 1959 he was introduced to Owen Luder by a colleague from the LCC and by the end of the year he was working for him in the Owen Luder Partnership for which he designed the Eros House . In the 1970s he founded Batir International Architects , which later became Tripos Architects , with Ray Baum and Larry Abbot. It was during this time, at
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168-580: The Straits of Magellan. Situated astride one of the world's historic trade routes, its prosperity has risen and fallen with that trade. Gordon's mother left there sometime in the 1920s and returned to London, England, where her parents had been living sometime before they left for Chile around 1903. They had initially come to London in the 1880s or 1890s to escape the Pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe. He went to University College Hospital Medical School at
192-402: The adjoining shopping centre by a "forest" of piloti columns. The decks on the north face had a slight curve creating a wave effect. There were two supporting towers containing stair and lift access. Each level of car park was therefore uninterrupted, so that when viewed from a distance the sky was visible through the structure. A cafe unit in a contrasting box structure sat above the top tier of
216-739: The age of 16 but then, two years later inspired by the Festival of Britain , he switched to the Hammersmith School of Building, going on to the Architectural Association School of Architecture , where he studied under the distinguished German Jewish modernist architect and urban planner Arthur Korn , before graduating in 1957. He then went to work at the London County Council (LCC) architects department for which he designed his first great work,
240-484: The architect was Owen Luder whereas, in fact, it was his practice that took the credit. My friend, Rodney Gordon, had actually designed the Trinity Centre. He hadn't been joking after all." In 2005, BBC Radio 3 broadcast Gateshead Multi-Storey Car Park in its experimental Between The Ears slot. A radiophonic tribute to Trinity Square, produced by Langham Research Centre , the programme was made entirely from
264-562: The car park connected to the access towers by a glazed bridge and an open walkway. The cafe, which never actually opened, had large windows providing views across the Tyne Gorge . The developer was E Alec Colman Investments Ltd , which had also used Luder for its Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth , and construction was undertaken by Robert McAlpine . The consulting structural engineer was Gordon Rose of Rose Associates. The lead architect
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#1732780760294288-416: The car park itself finally commenced on 26 July 2010, with Owen Luder stating that Gateshead would lose its "front teeth". Gateshead Council sold off fragments of the remains as "commemorative pieces of concrete in specially decorated tins" for £5 each. The site was subsequently redeveloped by Spenhill Developments , a division of Tesco , and a large supermarket, which was built by Bowmer + Kirkland ,
312-468: The car park was dubbed the Get Carter car park because of its appearance in the film. The director Mike Hodges was not aware that his friend Rodney Gordon had designed the car park, and did not understand Gordon's constant joking that one of the architect characters was a send-up of him. It was only through reading Gordon's obituaries that Hodges realised he was serious: "Until then I'd always thought
336-515: The car park. The shops in the shopping centre below closed at the end of January 2008, in readiness for the demolition, and a final tour of the upper levels was held by the owners of the site in April 2008. Demolition of the buildings surrounding the car park was started at the end of 2008 by demolition contractor, Thompsons of Prudhoe. By 2010, the car park structure remained, although the shopping centre buildings around had been demolished. Demolition of
360-428: The distance. Local businessman Cliff Brumby ( Bryan Mosley ) meets Jack Carter ( Michael Caine ) at the incomplete rooftop café, as he is in the process of developing it into a restaurant. Carter later confronts Brumby on one of the building's stairways, and pushes him off to his death; meanwhile the two effete architects waiting in the unfinished café for Brumby start worrying about ever getting their fees. After this film
384-579: The piece the building is compared to its architectural model. In 1984, Newcastle band Hurrah! shot a video showing the group performing their third single "Who'd Have Thought", which reached number 7 in the UK Indie chart in 1984, at the top of the 15 storey car park. With the development of the MetroCentre and competition from nearby Newcastle upon Tyne city centre, commercial interests in Gateshead town centre have declined. The 1985 opening of
408-505: The sounds of the car park, processed and treated on quarter-inch tape, featuring interviews with its architect Owen Luder, and representatives from the Twentieth Century Society and Gateshead Council. The car park was the subject of scale (1/16 inch=1 foot) , a dual channel super 16 mm film transferred to video, 16 minutes long and made in 2003. The work is by Turner Prize -nominated artist Runa Islam . In
432-497: Was Rodney Gordon . The car park was commissioned as part of the redevelopment of the established market square in Gateshead town centre, and hence was sometimes referred to as the Inner Market car park. However the landscaping ultimately created an exposed and unattractive shopping precinct on two levels with poor access. While construction of the car park was in progress subsidence was noticed due to mine workings, but this
456-568: Was completed in 2013. Trinity Square was nominated for the 2014 Carbuncle Cup for the ugliest building of the previous 12 months. 54°57′46″N 1°36′08″W / 54.9627°N 1.6022°W / 54.9627; -1.6022 Rodney Gordon Rodney H Gordon (2 February 1933 – 30 May 2008) was an English architect . He was the primary architect of the Tricorn Centre , Portsmouth , and Trinity Square, Gateshead . Architecturally, his works were primarily in concrete ; he
480-502: Was designed in 1962 by the Owen Luder Partnership when Brutalism was regarded as the cutting edge of architecture, but by the time that it opened in 1967, interest in the movement had begun to decline. The building's raw concrete weathered poorly, and by the time Get Carter was filmed in 1970 the car park had already become patchy. The multi-storey car park had seven tiers of parking decks. These were raised above
504-465: Was featured in the Channel 4 series Demolition in 2005 . At the same time general interest in the car park increased, partly as a reflection of the recognition of Get Carter as a classic of British cinema , with Sylvester Stallone lending his weight to the calls for it to be preserved as a cinematic landmark. In June 2007, Gateshead Council and site owners Tesco confirmed the demolition of
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#1732780760294528-478: Was noted for its Brutalist architecture produced by Rodney Gordon when he worked for the Owen Luder Partnership. The car park had a prominent role in the 1971 film Get Carter , so is commonly referred to as the Get Carter car park. The demolition of the car park structure itself started on 26 July 2010 and was complete by early October of the same year. The shopping centre opened in 2013. The car park
552-468: Was overcome. At the same time nearby Newcastle upon Tyne had begun the covered Eldon Square Shopping Centre and this further undermined the long-term success of the development. The rooftop cafe failed to find a tenant and was never opened. It was also unable to be granted a fire certificate by the fire service. The car park is the location of several key scenes in Get Carter , and is often seen in
576-464: Was said to be a brutalist and his buildings have been described as "dramatic, sculptural and enormous" as well as "futuristic". Gordon was born on 2 February 1933 in Wanstead , East London to Jewish parents Chilean-born Carmen F (Poirier) and East London-born Hyman Jacob Hyman. His mother was from the naval port of Punta Arenas , Tierra Del Fuego , the southernmost city on Earth, overlooking
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