Retrofit City

Walking home from college I called in to The Architecture Centre on Narrow Quay, to look at the exhibition called Bristol: Retrofit City.  

This was a small but extremely well presented and interesting show, looking at how some of the city's old and otherwise neglected buildings have been revamped and re-vitalised through sensitive architecture and careful development.  Not everyone in the city would agree, of course, and Bristol has had at least is share of planning horrors, and some others only narrowly averted over the pat few decades.  But the examples on show in this exhibition were impressive, and uplifting in terms of confirming that there is scope, and hope, for really sustainable and imaginative alternatives to Tesco-style new building.