Lumiere was a mixed-use skyscraper development in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, intended to be completed in 2010. The project was put on hold in 2008 and officially cancelled in 2010.
The project represented the second phase of the redevelopment of a Royal Mail sorting office, which had already seen a 65 metres (213 ft) tall former Royal Mail office reclad to become apartments called West Point.
It was planned than Lumiere would consist of two ...
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Lumiere was a mixed-use skyscraper development in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, intended to be completed in 2010. The project was put on hold in 2008 and officially cancelled in 2010.
The project represented the second phase of the redevelopment of a Royal Mail sorting office, which had already seen a 65 metres (213 ft) tall former Royal Mail office reclad to become apartments called West Point.
It was planned than Lumiere would consist of two towers of heights 54 storeys / 171 m (561 ft) and 32 storeys / 112 m (367 ft), both clad in glass, with the taller tower predominantly blue and the smaller tower of a reddish hue. The developers behind the project were KW Linfoot and Scarborough Development Group, and the designers were Ian Simpson Architects and, for the structural design, WSP Group. The construction was being carried out by Carillion.
If construction had proceeded the building would have housed a mixture of apartments, offices, shops, cafés, restaurants and a winter garden....
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