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King Alfred Developments are go!

Posted on September 13th, 2005 at 3:46 pm

Wow, I could be living near these developments, in Hove, if they get past one last barrier.

King Alfred Development 1 King Alfred Development 2

I love the crumpled metal look and its a huge improvement from the 60’s swimming pool thats there now. You can check out the Karis website here. Oh and Brad Pitt will be designing the penthouse restaurant.

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14 comments so far.

  1. Emily Spencer-Rigby on the September 13th, 2005 at 4:45 pm said:

    Afternoon Mr King. I have to say that I am a huge Frank Gehry fan and was a bit miffed at the local reaction to the plans and was huffing and puffing about how morons should never be allowed to make decisions. But, I don’t really like it and am hugely disappointed in the Frank-meister. The other plans are better. I my humble opinion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3030547.stm

  2. KingOfMyCastle on the September 13th, 2005 at 5:51 pm said:

    Hi, welcome to the site.

    So are you saying that you prefer Wilkinson Eyre’s designs? I think they’re both interesting. Unfortunatly the finished buildings don’t always look like the plans so it might not end up as crumpled as it looks in the pictures.

    Oh, and they put the red dot in the wrong place in picture 1 on that link. It should be much further down.

  3. monkey on the September 13th, 2005 at 9:58 pm said:

    oh, ok, i see now, the text gets bigger when you click on an individual post…sorry, it took me a while to work that out!

    are those going to be real buildings? they look amazing…

  4. julian bendall on the September 14th, 2005 at 8:46 am said:

    well i think it’s awful, should never have been allowed, bet there will be a burger king there and a starbucks..no local market traders nada nada bollocks. j

  5. Gavin Ayling on the September 14th, 2005 at 4:58 pm said:

    These buildings will put Brighton on the map. They are not to everyone’s tastes (though they are mine) but they’re exciting, different and suited to Brighton’s reasonably new bohemian culture.

  6. julian bendall on the September 14th, 2005 at 6:54 pm said:

    well, it depends if you want to look at the sea from your house or at someone elses house..

  7. KingOfMyCastle on the September 14th, 2005 at 8:23 pm said:

    Julian, those houses north of the seafront road have had that view for years. Surely its time they gave it to the younger, more affluent people to enjoy. ;)

    Anyway, can’t be any worse than the current eyesore.

  8. julian bendall on the September 15th, 2005 at 10:05 am said:

    well whatever happens i’m going to set fire to it anyway.
    j

  9. KingOfMyCastle on the September 15th, 2005 at 1:57 pm said:

    You heard it here first, folks!

  10. julian bendall on the September 16th, 2005 at 2:44 am said:

    right, i got a gallon of 4 star , it’s late , i’ve some cachaca, i’m off to burn!!! burn anytin, anyone..arhhhhhhggggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. julian bendall on the September 16th, 2005 at 2:00 pm said:

    bit drunk there, ooof too much dub in Brixton for me ….ouch

  12. GavPOLITICS » Blog Archive » King Alfred approval on the September 18th, 2005 at 11:18 pm said:

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  13. dancinfairy on the September 27th, 2005 at 5:03 pm said:

    I love the building but I don’t think that it is the right site for it. Why put such a tall building so close to the sea? There goes our view!

  14. KingOfMyCastle on the September 27th, 2005 at 6:07 pm said:

    Yeah, but you can get a view of the sea all along the coast. Next to the sea is the best place to put it.

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