Once I had completed my primary research, I then went on to do some secondary research about old and new buildings. this secondary research is displayed as mood boards. I created three mood boards, two to display old buildings and one to display new buildings.
This is the first mood boards which I created and it shows a selection of old buildings located within the bradford area. before creating this mood board i looked into some of the dates that these building were built in order to determine the age of the buildings and to see if the buildings which look to be old actually are the age that they appear to be or if has actually been built at a later date and not to be included within this mood board. Each of the buildings included in this mood board is old and was built at least 100 years ago. The buildings in this mood board include Bradford town hall, St. Georges hall, Bolling Hall, The Wool Exchange, The Alhambra and Salts Mill.Each of these buildings is location is Bradford so all of these locations are fairly local and could later be easily visited in order to later take my own photographs which I will be doing at a later date in within this project. There is a lot of history within each of these buildings making them fit perfectly into this mood board as the mood board focus' around old and historical buildings within bradford. This mood board shows us that there are a lot of old and historical buildings within Bradford.
Bradford town hall: Bradford town hall is a grade 1 listed 19th century building which was built between the years of 1870 and 1973. This building has undergone improvements such as general repairs in 1965 and the repair of the bell which stopped ringing in 1992 as a result of decay to the bell frame. the bells were repaired in 1997. The town hall is easily recognisable for the clock tower which towers over the town hall and overlooking city park. The bells in the clock tower chime every hour, on the hour and at the 2005 memorial of the bradford city fire which happened in 1985, the town hall bells played you'll never walk alone and abide with me as a tribue to those who lost their lives that day.
St. Georges Hall: St. Georges Hall is a grade 2 listed Victorian building located within the centre of Bradford. St. Georges Hall was built in 1853 and is the oldest concert hall still in use in the united kingdom and the third oldest concert hall still in use in the whole of europe. The design of this building was chosen from over 22 designs and was built using ashlar sandstone. the interior underwent remodelling after world war 2 and again after fires in the 1980s
The wool exchange: The wool exchange building is a grade 1 listed building originally built as a wool trading centre in the 19th century. This building was built between 1864 and 1867 and was built in a gothic architectural style. The building has not been used as a wool exchange since the 1960's and is not used as a cafe and Waterstones book shop.
The Alhambra: the Alhambra is a theatre built in 1913 for a cost of £20,000. in 1964 the Alhambra was bought by bradford council and in 1974 it was designated a grade 2 listed building. The Alhambra is easily recognisable on the bradford skyline because of its large domes roof making it compliment the domes present on the building of the odeon which is situated right next to it.
This is the second mood board which I created and this mood board consists of old building in the west yorkshire area. When collecting images for the mood previous mood board i found that there were a lot of interesting, old and historical buildings in Bradford and the surrounding areas so i decided to create a mood board to show the old buildings in Bardford and a separate one to show the old historical buildings in the rest of west yorkshire. This mood board includes photographs again of buildings which are at least 100 years old and the buildings which have been included are Leeds town hall, Kirkstall Abbey, Fountains abbey and the 'Majestic' hotel in Harrogate. Like within the last mood board, each of these buildings has a lot of history and i found that they were interesting and aesthetically pleasing making this the reason I included them into this mood board.
This is the third mood board which i created and this mood board contains new buildings which are located within west yorkshire, When creating this mood board, i was originally going to create a mood board just for new buildings in bradford and another for new buildings in the rest of west yorkshire however i was not able to find enough photographs of this nature in order to create a mood board of each so i combined the two and created a mood board containing photographs of new buildings from areound bradford and the rest of west yorkshire. the buildings included in this mood board are all new and this can be seen by the design of these buildings. the design of the buildings within this mood board all differ greatly however there is a reoccurring theme of a large amount of glass being used within the construction of these buildings. This is a give away that these buildings are new in comparison to those included within the other two mood boards as when the other buildings were designed and constructed, the use of large amounts of glass was not as popular as it is now and the main construction material was brick and stone. These materials are still used within the construction of buildings today however a lot more modern looking materials such as glass and steel are used in the construction of buildings today. some of the buildings included in this mood board include The David Hockney building at Bradford College, Titus Salt School, westfiels bradford and trinity leeds.
David Hockney Building: The david hockney building is the most recent addition to Bradford college and it was opened in 2014 after 2 years of construction. This building was named after the photographer David Hockney who is a former student at this college and is now an extremely successful and well known photographer. This building has a modern design with a large glass exterior making it clear by looking at it that it is a modern building.
Westfield bradford: Westfield is a new shopping centre which i due to open this year. it is still currently under construction meaning that this is clearly a new building as it is still yet to be completed.
Titus Salt School: formally known as Salt Grammar School was completely rebuilt in 2008. The original building which was built in 1945 was proved to be not fit for purpose anymore so it was rebuilt on the same site in 2008. This building has a typically modern design with the use of curved walls and a lot of glass. these features are give aways that the building has a modern nature when looking at it without the need to do much research in order to know this information.
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