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Gosford St. Coventry (near Cox Street) painted by Sydney John Bunney on 18 May 1916 The weaving industries declined after 1860, giving rise to cycle manufacture, and to the car industry. [ 4 ] One of the notable relics of this is the Humber Motor Building at the junction of Sky Blue Way, which exists at present as Lloyd TSB Bank .
The Central Region is one of the five regions in the city-state of Singapore and the main metropolitan region surrounding the Central Area.Comprising 13,150 hectares (32,500 acres) of land area, [2] it includes 11 planning areas within the Central Area, as well as another 11 more outside it.
Coventry has a variety of schools: Two of the oldest secondary schools being President Kennedy School founded in 1966 and located in the north-west of Coventry (currently undergoing rebuilding work) and Sidney Stringer Academy which is located in the centre of the city. It is a co-educational school and has moved into a larger building costing ...
The Central Area, also called the City Area, and informally The City, is the main commercial and financial city centre of Singapore.Located in the south-eastern part of the Central Region, the Central Area consists of eleven constituent planning areas: the Downtown Core, Marina East, Marina South, the Museum Planning Area, Newton, Orchard, Outram, River Valley, Rochor, the Singapore River and ...
The building is designed to look like an elephant in reference to the coat of arms of the city of Coventry, which shows Coventry Castle being carried on the back of an elephant. [5] Elephants are a popular motif in the civic life of Coventry, appearing on the logo of Coventry City F.C. and Coventry R.F.C. as well as the badge of HMS Coventry ...
In 1949, the McDonald House office was built. In the 1950s, Orchard Road was turned into a central car distribution centre. In addition, the construction of high-rise apartments began in the early 1960s. Ngee Ann City, Emerald Hill, and Cairnhill Mansion were such cases even if these buildings did not succeed in attracting people's attention ...
Radford consists of four neighbourhoods; Radford Diamond, East Radford, West Radford, and Canal Basin. Radford Diamond is located approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) to the northwest of Coventry city centre and is bounded by Barkers Butts Lane, Lawrence Saunders Road and the Radford Road with the Coventry-Nuneaton railway forming the southern boundary.
The Phoenix Initiative was instigated by Coventry City Council in the early 1990s, and the architectural firm MacCormac Jamieson Prichard won the contract in 1997 to masterplan the redevelopment. They designed the Whittle Arch as a transition from the "past" ( St Mary's Priory and Cathedral ) to the "future" (the Garden of International ...