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In Leeds, the growth of the financial and business services sector from the mid-1980s onwards resulted in a boom in office developments in the city centre. Many of the buildings constructed at this time are in the style known as the "Leeds Look", which is typified by the use of dark red brickwork and steeply pitched grey slate roofs. This style was intended to derive from Leeds’ Victorian heritage.〔Leeds City Council (1988) “City Centre Developments” publicity brochure〕 At the time the city became "almost infamous"〔Smales L & Whitney D (1996), Inventing a better place: urban design in Leeds in the post war era〕 for insisting that new schemes should interpret the style of its Victorian riverfront warehouses in this way. Dr Kevin Grady, the director of the Leeds Civic Trust, describes the Leeds Look as “an interim response in the 1980s for architecture that had a human scale and was pleasing on the eye following some of the mistakes of the 1960s and 70s.”〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/citylife/buildings_1_city_square.shtml (29 January 2010 )〕 ==Examples of major "Leeds Look" buildings== * 1 East Parade * Yorkshire Bank Offices, Wade Lane * Westgate Point, Westgate * HBOS Offices, Lovell Park Road (originally the headquarters of the Leeds Permanent Building Society) * Leeds Magistrates' Court, Westgate * Quarry House, Quarry Hill * Crowne Plaza Hotel, Wellington Street 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Leeds Look」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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