Castlemead Tower and Broadmead Car Park

Some buildings tell the story of a city’s rise and transformation. Castlemead Tower and the adjacent Broadmead Car Park stand together at the edge of Bristol’s shopping district, marking a bold moment in the city’s post-war regeneration. Broadmead Car Park opened in 1960, a product of Bristol’s post-war rebuilding and the growing need for car access to the city centre. Its bold concrete decks and clean, functional geometry were typical of early modernist civic design. Two decades later, Castlemead Tower rose beside it, completed in 1981 and designed by A. J. Hines. The tower brought a new vertical rhythm to the skyline, its concrete and glass façade marking Bristol’s shift into a new era of urban confidence.

This model unites the two structures as one sculptural composition.
The horizontal mass of the car park and the slender vertical lift of the tower balance one another, creating a dialogue between weight and height. I wanted the cast to capture that contrast, showing how both buildings tell different sides of the same story in concrete.

A small cast of two buildings that shaped Bristol’s modern city centre. Made for those who remember Broadmead in its changing decades, studied Bristol’s evolving skyline, or recognise the layered history of its modern architecture.