Tricorn Portsmouth uk

[@BrainzIOW]

Some great photos there, thanks for sharing. We used to roller skate around the car park in the evenings. I posted a video on KZbin a while ago showing when we went into the old nightclub there.

[@Powered_By_Pies]

I remember going past this in the early 2000's in the back of the parents' car on the way to Cascades, and seeing the Sonic the Hedgehog cutout sitting in the then-empty Virgin Megastore, and the paintwork for Laser Quest still on one of the collumns. Kind of shows the council's complete lack of ambition that almost 11 years on, nothing but an over-priced car park sits there, that barely gets used. It's a prime spot for someone to come along and build something like a multi-function venue/arena on, which could kick-start a complete regeneration of Commercial Road and Cascades, which is so badly needed. That portion of the city is decayed beyond belief, and yet the council still falsely believe that Gunwharf is all that's needed to attract tourists to the city. I don't think that's the case any more, and hasn't been for some years. Gunwharf's nice, but it's coming close to its sell-by date already.

[@craigwells1201]

CrossvaderDJ Its funny that with a growing interest and appreciation for brutalist architecture... There would've perhaps been a small tourist market in the Tricorn Centre itself now. Still doubtfully significant enough to make the financial upkeep of the building viable... But it's still ironic. People wanted it gone so much at the time... Fast forward a decade and NOTHING has replaced it, and its nationally recognised as having been an important piece of design. Shame

[@leon-o4m7k]

this place believe it or not ' won an award for best design 🤯

[@PompeyChris71]

I really miss the Tricorn. They could have renovated it. Now we are in 2013 and its still a car park....

[@ghfamghgam1172]

2020 still a carpark..

[@PompeyChris71]

I miss it. I used to work at Fine Fare in 1971 and the nearby 'Casbah' pub was my local. I was a member of the Tricorn Club at the top and remember it all with affection. I never felt scared going up there and think it could have been renovated. Just an empty car park there now. Shame.

[@saintnick7]

Was used in the casualty episode "give my love to esme" when a bomb went off in a shopping centre, also featured the cascades...

[@FannySMUDGE]

Nostalgic... I remember the building when I was young!

[@llpalm08]

also does any one know what that game shop was called in there. and technicly the tricorn is still there in a part. if you look rund the back of argos you will see the fire escape from argos into where the main part of the tricorn was

[@antimilesemc2]

great video :)

[@TUKTUKSTUEY]

@LUCIDity2009 i was a market boy in the 70s had so much fun there!! there was a night club at the top the tricorn club

[@1100HondaCB]

Can someone please show me around the Tricorn flats.

[@ThoughtTraveler]

I am sure that in 1966 this design was at the cutting edge of style and form. I don't think it was so much the shape but the ghastly dead grey color/colour of the building. By the way..was this some sort of retail outlet or something?

[@towerboy07]

if it was still their today i would probbaly go their and have a look inside. it was so easy to get inside it. bloody hell it would be creepy tho

[@MindlessPap]

shame it was never finished how it was supposed to be, there was originally plans for more shop fronts and a transport service (bus i think) to and from the tricorn in an interview with the designer in 2004 he moans about this.. i always thought it was an erie building.. wasn't they going to paint it pink at one point? maybe it was just 'hear say'? great video.

[@TUKTUKSTUEY]

@1Gsxrider grannys was in northend & the portland was in southsea

[@PaddyButters]

Thats's a strong opinion. What have you based that on? Where are you from?

[@bloke33]

that place would of been really good for a shootout in 24 :P shame nobody ever made something like that

[@gmf121266]

Give it enough time and some revisionist architectural historian will be singing its praises and mourning its loss.

[@HOGFATS]

I played in grannys...remember Grannys?

[@Jimbomiles]

How can antone say that shouldn't have been torn down??? It was such a hole!

[@nckweeks]

Ugly it may have been but it had character. After walking through the indoor market area with the variety of reasonably priced clothes stalls you come out the other side and hear the constant pumping of tunes from the corner that was Domino Records. My mates and I were often chased through the Tricorn by irrate market traders for getting upto no good and winding them up. Ha ha those were the days!!

[@PaddyButters]

Dont get me wrong - the tricorn was a mess. Just questioning your '40 years' statement.

[@llpalm08]

they made the tricorn with 2 million pounds in the 60's. you would have thought that it would have looked so much better thn it did. shold have paid a bit more attention to it rather than letting it rot away. what was with the flats in it anyway. who would want to live in a multi story carpark apove a shopping centre. when the buildings are as bad as they are.

[@4XRICHIE]

The Tricorn should have gone. Its a typical example of Portsmouth people not being able to move on and living in the past all the time. Thats why Pompey is deprived' it has no ambition and is about 40 years behind everyone else. You need to drag yourself into the 21st century.