As you know there has been a lot of controversy over the Central Promenade Site this last year or so. This is because the development is mostly residential, very large in height and seriously lacks the attractions needed to bring people to the town.
In 2005/6 a design competition was held to find an architect to redesign the site. There were about 100 entries and this was later narrowed down to 6 designs.
The question that has to be asked is why these 6 were considered the best. The public certainly had no involvement in this decision and non of these other designs were on display to the public.
If you look across the Internet you will find many of these proposals that other architects submitted. Some very different to what was chosen. I'm not saying these were any better than the ones which were eventually chosen, but it does raise the question as to why there was no public say on the alternatives.
Some of the alternative designs are as follows:
http://www.loosarchitects.nl/projectpages/mixeduse/MOR/MORmaorcambepromenade.html
http://www.spacelab.co.uk/node/83
http://www.schemataworkshop.com/site/plan_morecambe.php
http://www.hgp-architects.co.uk/london4.html
http://www.barrgazetas.com/main.html - You'll need to look at their projects page to find theirs.
http://www.patricknicholson.co.uk/projects/project6.htm
http://www.urbed.coop/journals_show.php?j_id=97
http://www.esa-ltd.com/think/1/12/
http://www.stephengeorge.co.uk/future/morecambe.asp
http://www.3w.org/index.php/projects/project/36
Child Graddon Lewis Architects
These are just a few of the competition entries which were submitted. Unfortunately whether you prefer these or not, they were never on view for the local population to inspect.
