SIR – I don’t know which buildings Elaine Neale is referring to when she says Bradford’s architecture is a mishmash and its town planning is appalling (T&A, December 2).
Could she have in mind the ultra-modern Gatehaus, the Hilton Hotel facing our iconic City Hall or even the T&A’s famous landmark printing house?
The lady must never have seen the quaint historic buildings dwarfed by New York’s skyscrapers, the fantastic glass construction fronting the centuries old Louvre in Paris or London’s imposing yet incongruent ‘gherkin’.
Unbelievably, Wren’s magnificent Baroque St Paul’s Cathedral that replaced its mediaeval predecessor destroyed by the Great Fire of London did not escape the critics of its day. Seemingly every generation has them but do they have to be so vitriolic?
David Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford
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