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Altus House is a 37-storey, residential skyscraper in Arena Quarter, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.The building consists of over 752 student units. [2] Sources differ as to whether it is 114 or 116 metres (374 or 381 feet) [2] [3] tall; by either measurement Altus House is the tallest building in Leeds and Yorkshire as of 2023, taking the title from Bridgewater Place in 2021.
The earliest recorded tallest building in Leeds. 1841 1858 Leeds Minster: 1837–1841 42 [19] 139 At the time of its construction, it was the largest church in the United Kingdom built on a new site since St Paul's Cathedral. [19] 1858 1966 Leeds Town Hall: 1853–1858 69 226 One of the tallest Town Halls in the United Kingdom. [citation needed ...
Bridgewater Place, nicknamed The Dalek, [2] [3] is an office and residential skyscraper in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was the tallest building in Yorkshire at the time of being topped out in September 2005, but is now the second-tallest after another Leeds building, Altus House. Bridgewater Place is visible from up to 25 miles (40 ...
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BBC Look North is the BBC's regional television news service for West, South and North Yorkshire and northern parts of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.The service is produced and broadcast from the BBC Broadcasting Centre at St. Peter's Square in Leeds with district newsrooms based in Bradford, Sheffield and York.
High-rise residential blocks are common in many towns and cities in Yorkshire, with many councils, particularly Leeds, Halifax and Kingston upon Hull enthusiastically embracing high-rise living in the 1960s and '70s. Sheffield has fewer high-rise residential blocks, with the council there looking more towards the more modern 'wall like ...
The building is the second phase of a development in Leeds city centre, and contains 533 student apartments. It was the world's tallest student accommodation building at 103 metres (338 ft) when completed, [ 2 ] although it has since been passed by others including Altus House, Leeds . [ 3 ]
December 1980: A series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and objects in the sky, and the alleged landing of an extraterrestrial spacecraft occurred at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England on 26 December. It is perhaps the most famous UFO event to have happened in Britain, ranking amongst the best-known UFO events worldwide.