Carlisle’s Civic Centre, albeit a listing building, isn’t
one of the cities’ most attractive sights.
It’s an angular, modernist tower which was completed in 1964 following a
design competition with 200 entries. The
area formerly housed the Ricker or Northern Gate to the city and a host of houses
and state owned pubs but with archetypal 1950s enthusiasm for modernisation, the
land was cleared to create the site for Carlisle’s only “tower block”. I’m definitely not a fan of cubic design but
even so, I was enthralled to see a rainbow arcing over it on a rainy day last
week.
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