Amex House.....

[ofco8]

...to be demolished by 2016? I know that they have built the new extension but thought it was in addition to Amex House. However, the centre spread in Argus today says it has to be vacated and demolished by 2016.
I always thought of it as being one of the best pieces of modern architecture in Brighton.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

I'd love to have a look around inside there.

 

[mistahclarke]

...to be demolished by 2016? I know that they have built the new extension but thought it was in addition to Amex House. However, the centre spread in Argus today says it has to be vacated and demolished by 2016.
I always thought of it as being one of the best pieces of modern architecture in Brighton.

always was the plan. There will be a new road built too.

 

[surrey jim]

I'd love to have a look around inside there.

Trust me it's not very exciting! Open plan offices over 8 floors like most other office blocks!

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Trust me it's not very exciting! Open plan offices over 8 floors like most other office blocks!

Exactly what i was going to say,went for an interview in about 1993 there one Evening-looks impressive from the outside though,would be a shame if it went..

 

[Drumstick]

always was the plan. There will be a new road built too.

Apart from a new road anything else going in it place?

 

[pasty]

Be a bit sad when it goes I think - I spent 15 years working in there

 

[Birdie Boy]

Apart from a new road anything else going in it place?

I have heard rumous of shops and flats but don't know if it is true.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Work over the road while it was built one of the first departments to go into amex house xmas cake! great views from the roof!
Recall first day at work as a 16 years old and pooping myself,then a lad walked up at work and said i saw you in the gillingham end last saturday
Football friend still say hello in the wsu 35 years later

 

[cardboard]

Its just going to be replaced by gardens etc
Never heard a road mentioned

 

[Lincoln Imp]

...to be demolished by 2016? I know that they have built the new extension but thought it was in addition to Amex House. However, the centre spread in Argus today says it has to be vacated and demolished by 2016.
I always thought of it as being one of the best pieces of modern architecture in Brighton.

It's good that people have opinions about architecture but I don't like the Amex building at all. It was designed according to a passing fad of fashion and now looks as modern as a girl called Beryl. Its facade is covered in dirt and grime and it's no advertisement at all for Amex's oft-lauded community values. It's subjective of course but to my mind the best modern building in Brighton has to be the City Library.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Right we need to act quick here-2016? swap the Amex for Edward street....site big enough for 50,000 seats and no transport problems

 

[Return of the Rev]

Be a bit sad when it goes I think - I spent 15 years working in there

17 years

 

[Triggaaar]

Where are the staff going?

 

[Drumstick]

It's good that people have opinions about architecture but I don't like the Amex building at all. It was designed according to a passing fad of fashion and now looks as modern as a girl called Beryl. Its facade is covered in dirt and grime and it's no advertisement at all for Amex's oft-lauded community values. It's subjective of course but to my mind the best modern building in Brighton has to be the City Library.

See I'm in the really like it camp, I do only wish it was twice the height. There is something nicely American high rise about it that I like. I also like the offices next to the old Astoria.

My current fravourate building (excluding the stadium) is Libary also. I think the new 'Media Hub' planned for the old Astoria looks nice too.

 

[Drumstick]

Where are the staff going?

In the new building I'd guess.

 

[Triggaaar]

In the new building I'd guess.

Sorry, I have no idea what's going on. What new building?

 

[Drumstick]

Sorry, I have no idea what's going on. What new building?

Amex house on the bottom of Eastern Road has a new shiny Amex building behind it still under construction (Google Image search ' Amex Building Brighton')

According to this thread the older one is to be knocked down. I thought they were just expanding but I guess its just a replacement building.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Amex house on the bottom of Eastern Road has a new shiny Amex building behind it still under construction (Google Image search ' Amex Building Brighton')

According to this thread the older one is to be knocked down. I thought they were just expanding but I guess its just a replacement building.

edward street

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Amex house on the bottom of Eastern Road has a new shiny Amex building behind it still under construction (Google Image search ' Amex Building Brighton')

According to this thread the older one is to be knocked down. I thought they were just expanding but I guess its just a replacement building.

Me too & i think their original site was far more prominent & imposing,the new building seems a bit tucked out of the way,bit like a green house at the back of a garden..