Castleford in Yorkshire was in the spotlight earlier in the year as Kevin McCloud's Big Town Plan televised the regeneration of this former mining town.
Today I went to Castleford and saw the famous bridge and the Tickle Cock Underpass. The bridge works really well and has some cleverly designed seating right the way across the bridge. It curves across the bridge and there are four lots of seating.
I was intrigued to see Tickle Cock Underpass because of the flocked wall and seating. The Underpass itself is very well designed but the immediate problem as you can see from the photos above is that the flocked seating has been vandalised. It was only opened on 27 June 2008 so what will it look like in another six months?
Martin Richman selected this material so it will be interesting to see what materials he uses for the London Olympic bridges commissions.
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