As you approach the city centre from the M32, along Newfoundland Way, it seems for a while that you are heading straight for the building (until you reach the Bond Street junction and turn away).
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| Castlemead Tower, Bristol |
At 80m, I thought it was also the tallest building in Bristol although Wikipedia places St. Mary Redcliffe in the No.1 spot at 89m. It's height appears further accentuated due to the exterior concrete panels rising up in unbroken vertical lines from the first floor. When viewed from a distance it also gives the impression of a building that is coming up out of the ground.
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| Castlemead Tower from Castle Park |
The distinctive projections around the top of the building are suggestive of the overhanging machicolations that were a feature of medieval castle construction (although in this case there are no openings for dropping things onto people underneath).
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| Concrete projections at roof level. |
Here is a photo of Raglan Castle (Not far away over the Welsh border) so you can see what I am thinking of.
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| Raglan Castle |
However, despite the apparent lack of facilities for dropping things from the top, there was an incident last year where a man entered the building, started smashing things up inside and then threw a load of office equipment out of a 10th or 11th floor window.
Here is a link to the story as it was reported at the time.
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| Looks good from just about every angle. |
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