The Ambitious Plan to Concrete over the River Tyne

[@thomasrutter824]

For any urban studies student this is highly informative. Thank you. Anyone living in Newcastle there is an exhibition at the Farrell Centre that explores this idea - concrete dreams

[@137Rita]

@@thomasrutter824 Thanks for reminding me - must go to that!

[@JordanReeve]

great recommendation, would recommend anyone interested in my films to check out the Farrell Centre

[@GeordieHandle]

Hey i had absolutely no idea about this place!! thank you for the recommendation.

[@137Rita]

A model for the deck was shown at the Baltic during the Great Exhibition of the North in 2018, not sure if it was original. It looked horrendous - but your suggestion that it was never intended to be built but that the underlying principles have been followed, is a very accurate analysis of the outcome. Spot on as usual Jordan. I look forward to more content from Perth....

[@johnosborne9271]

Given the recent news of the Gateshead Highway; it’s lucky this never happened

[@davidwhitton9050]

Concrete cancer was something we were instructed on when I was at university over 30 years ago it's baffling these schemes even got as far as they did.

[@toi_techno]

Cool vid “Comparable to Durham and the major sites of Europe” is a phrase I thought I’d never hear

[@Tinker1950]

Many thanks Jordan. This was some new information completely unknown to me.

[@TeamCGS2005]

Fascinating stuff Jordan as always. Thanks for this and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!

[@simbar1959]

Always interesting and informative Jordan.

[@MBrady1970]

Thank god that never went ahead! 😯 great video Jordan, first I've heard of that scheme. Merry Xmas

[@Minecraft-pj4hm]

The River is a River and deserves respect as such. Sad when they get trashed and people turn their backs on them. Lucky where I am - there are two.

[@SC_14]

You should do a video on the redevelopment plans for the old Wear Port at the mouth of river wear.

[@makumjeff2257]

Tyne & Wear development was great! Unfortunately they forgot about the ‘Wear’ part! Fortune spent on the Tyne ‘0’ on the Wear. The Wear (Sunderland) should have stayed as part of County Durham! Anything outside the bounds of Newcastle is left out of the big spend!! Ps, building over the Tyne was an April fool stunt!

[@Commonsense-u1h]

It´s good it wasn´t concreted over, I couldn´t imagine Newcastle without the Tyne.

[@davidwhitton9050]

It's OK it would have all collapsed and crumbled away by now.

[@vince6466]

Lol I have never heard anyone from Peterlee describe it so enthusiastically.

[@robertcawthorn8318]

love your content

[@JohnLavender]

I never knew or heard anything about this, therefore I disbelieve. Lived here 30 years almost.

[@stephen8468]

That heavens that monstrosity was not constructed

[@SC_14]

The glasshouse? Is it not called the sage anymore?

[@johnosborne9271]

I was thinking the same thing, I’ve never heard it called the glasshouse 😂

[@MexicanSeafood88]

the sage group sponsored development on land right next to the sage, which will take on the name sage. so the original was renamed The Glasshouse International Centre for Music about a year ago now.

[@davidgorman7911]

The current name is the sagesorryglasshouse.

[@jonathanlee5907]

@@davidgorman7911this is accurate

[@smarttseluvka]

Stupidest idea ever. You can tell that the people designing it weren’t engineers but artists when they want to build tower blocks over a coal mine… this is the trouble with architecture these days form over function and the form doesn’t even look nice

[@firestarter1888]

Cost > everything

[@MichaelCampin]

Yep, they built the new Sunderland Stadium of Light over the top of Monkwearmouth Colliery , how long before it falls down the shaft

[@menshevik1012]

They’re not artists. Developers and designers a match made in hell.

[@johngamba4823]

What happens when architects egos get out of control

[@1258-Eckhart]

Hi Jordan, I always enjoy your well-informed videos. I find the Tyne Deck proposal too mannered and self-conscious and am in favour of keeping the river open.

[@andymoss2490]

The river brought life and wealth ,deserves a future ,would seem criminal to even consider concreting it over .

[@harr_6068]

I am a huge fan of modernism and brutalism but this would have been bad in two ways 1. Concrete cancer may have affected this 2. It would look terrible, and future developments such as Newcastle Quayside or Gateshead Quays, Sage etc. may have never happened

[@shadowsinstatic]

Hi Jordan, I’m a street photographer and local history nerd from the North East and really enjoy your videos. If you're ever interested, I think it’d be great to collaborate on something like a photo-documentary or a project exploring how lost spaces have changed over time. I’d love to combine our skills to showcase the history and life of the region. Let me know if you’re interested. All the best.

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Although their rivers are nowhere as wide as the Tyne, both Coventry and Stourbridge had the rivers crossing their city / town culverted and built over during the 60s.

[@-Katastrophe]

The issue wasn't that they wanted to bridge the river but what they wanted to bridge it with. if they had of proposed a large green space, like a really really wide wildlife overpass it likely would have been built.

[@XTSu-sl1bb]

So glad this was never built. It was a terrible idea like many of them in the 60s.

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

Lets be honest the North east just north of Gateshead feels very isolated from the rest of England and also from Scotland and the River Tyne is a massive reason for it. Even walking down northumberland street past pi;lgrom srtereet onto the main road that leads to the Tyne bridge has a feel of 'the rest of the world awaits beyond those hills in Gateshead' feel to them.

[@firestarter1888]

😂😂😂 even the internwt is black and white!

[@r1bew42]

and that's a bad thing why???

[@gibsonduvall]

JohnKR: And the actual point of your comment is?

[@jonathanlee5907]

I’m a fan of brutalism but looking at their house designs would never have a flat roof in a cold wet temperate climate (there it snowed heavily global heating)

[@bensouthwell1339]

I mentioned the new stadium of St james should be built on the banks of the Tyne spanning half the river. Some where near Elswick with easy access from all areas and still in the city. Alas Lampooned was I, a head full of shit was I yet so nice to learn others were there before mem Maybe not a stadium but then they did not have Saudi funding behind them.

[@carlstewart2442]

what a mess that would have been

[@55north17]

Some ghastly architecture. Devoid of innovation and imagination. Sold to uneducated clients.

[@MichaelCampin]

Gateshead is part of Sunderland not Newcastle

[@fatelvis121]

What have you been smoking?

[@momachine74]

​@fatelvis121 well they were both part of County Durham at one time

[@MichaelCampin]

@fatelvis121 the truth

[@robertcawthorn8318]

comments arnt working

[@privatechannel8462]

I assumed this had been done, not that you could tell the difference