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Wakefield market hall david adjaye biography

          Plans to demolish the Wakefield Market Hall buildings in northern England, built by British architect David Adjaye just 10 years ago, have been approved.

        1. The building was designed to serve as Wakefield Market Hall, replacing an older market hall on the site.
        2. A new market hall in Wakefield forming part of a wider regeneration of the Trinity Walk and Marsh Way area close to the town centre.
        3. While the work of this year-old Tanzania-born British architect more than warrants the attention it is getting, the show fails convincingly to connect his.
        4. The building is designed by award-winning architect and presenter of the BBC programme Dreamscapes, David Adjaye.

          5. A new market hall in Wakefield forming part of a wider regeneration of the Trinity Walk and Marsh Way area close to the town centre.!

          Adjaye’s market saved from demolition after council U-turn

          Wakefield Council’s cabinet voted last July to pull down all buildings on the site except the distinctive canopy from the scheme completed in 2008.

          Sovereign Land, the owners of the town’s Trinity Walk shopping centre, won planning permission for a Leslie Jones Architecture-designed cinema and restaurant scheme in December 2017.

          But the developer has struggled to progress with the project and, with fresh plans emerging for another cinema in the city, the council has now decided to reverse its decision to sell the site.

          Instead, the building will be now be used to house a new creativity and innovation hub for the Wakefield Creative Industries Growth Platform, to be known as WX3.

          ‘A recent appraisal of potential sites to host a city centre creativity and innovation hub has identified the opportunity to repurpose the main market hall building, offering a cost-effective and exciting way to deliver a key function of the W