Jun 1
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Echo 24 building.
Designed by Mario Minchella Architects, Echo 24 is a landmark 13-storey scheme at the edge of the city centre, which occupies the narrow island site of the former Sunderland Echo printworks overlooking the River Wear. The £38m building has won the Building Control Quality Award for Best Regeneration Project.
I didn't like this building when it was first finished but I must admit it has grown on me. I just think it needs more around it. The river could be developed as a business area of the city and drive the local economy. As I have blogged about before (paul Swinney's report) Sunderland city centre is not a place in demand at all by local businesses for a variety of reasons. If developed in the correct way these unused, underdeveloped sites (including Vaux and Farringdon Row) could make a big changes in the city centre.