Bridgewater Place, Leeds - Tallest Building in Yorkshire

The building in the photograph is Bridgewater Place in Leeds city centre.

I have photographed this building several times but have never quite got the picture to do the tallest building in Yorkshire justice. This photo I am quite happy with, you can see the older original buildings of granary wharf in the foreground as well as Bridgewater Place itself.

On the left in the foreground on the photo you can see a view of the newly built Watermans Place apartment building part of the current Granary Wharf development, Leeds.

The Bridgewater place development is both office and residential with some retail too. When building work was completed in 2007 Bridgewater Place became the tallest building in Leeds by a good margin and also the tallest building in Yorkshire. (By this I mean proper building rather than radio or TV mast).

Bridgewater Place, Leeds is 110 metres (360 ft) tall and by the time it had been completed work had started on a taller building in Leeds city centre the Lumiere Tower also known as West Point. However the Lumiere project is now just some foundation groundworks and work has been put on hold.

I was really disappointed to watch the progress on Wellington Street of Lumiere grind to a halt, I used walk past the development most days of the way to the office. I had watched the builders tear down the office block that was the previous building on the site and was amazed to hear that the new development was to be the tallest residential building in Western Europe at 171 metres (564 ft). All this right here in the heart of Leeds city centre, not quite just yet though.