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Southampton City Centre is the commercial and organisational centre of the City of Southampton, and the transport hub of the city. Because Southampton is on the South Coast of England, the city centre is not at the geometric centre of the city, but at the southern extremity. The traditional heart of the city is the High Street, which runs from ...
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The Civic Centre is a municipal building located in the Cultural Quarter area within the city of Southampton, England. It comprises offices occupied by Southampton City Council , the SeaCity Museum , the Guildhall , the Southampton City Art Gallery , and the city library .
Designed by Ernest Berry Webber, the Civic Centre comprises four buildings with their facades facing outwards, all in a classical style, faced in Portland stone. At the centre, facing east, is the Guildhall which comprises a large gabled public assembly hall with a flat-roofed entrance hall with an Ionic portico. The southern block, which ...
Westquay (formerly WestQuay) is a shopping centre in Southampton, England.It has an area of 95,600 m 2 (1,029,000 sq ft) [1] of retail and leisure space [2] and contains around 130 shops, including major retailers such as John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Zara, Schuh, Waterstones, Hollister Co. and Apple.
In total there are 317 [1] listed buildings in the city of Southampton, of which 14 are Grade I, 20 are Grade II* and the remainder Grade II.. In England, a building or structure is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a Government department, in ...
This list of the tallest buildings and structures in Southampton ranks skyscrapers and structures in Southampton, England. Only structures taller than 150 feet (46 m) are listed, although there are a further 17 towers in the city between 40m and 45m. The city's tallest structures are the 130 metres (430 ft) container port cranes.
The name originates from a planned grand 22-acre (89,000 m 2) development in this area – a twelve-sided polygon that would comprise houses, hotels, assembly rooms and a tavern. The design was the brainchild of architect Jacob Leroux , who saw it as Southampton's answer to Bath 's Royal Crescent .