[{"text_idx": "#000011", "text": "One of the main objectives of this grand project was to \u2018re-unite Cardiff with its waterfront\u2019. However if you anticipate a pleasant stroll from Central Station to the Blue Lagoon forget it, although the walk is instructive. You can take the no. 6 shuttle bus instead (free with your train ticket). There is also a station at Cardiff Bay but it does not connect to Central \u2013 it is part of the Valleys commuter network. For years the CBDC tried to remove this branch line as it stood in the way of the grand plan for the Ceausescu-like Lloyd George Avenue down to the Bay..."}, {"text_idx": "#000013", "text": "The problem is that Callaghan Square is not really leading anywhere. You will find the unprepossessing start of Ceausescu Boulevard beyond the railway bridge in a chaos of traffic and budget hotels. Given that Bute St runs straight as an arrow from Callaghan Square to the Pier Head, why was the parallel Lloyd George Avenue necessary? Well, you know, Butetown, Tiger Bay \u2013 not really the right image is it boy. Lloyd George Avenue defines Butetown as a ghetto just like any London Docklands council estate. Actually Bute St is a lot more fun than Lloyd George Avenue. Firstly there is the wonderful neo-Norman St Mary\u2019s Church (1845) and there are actually people. Lloyd George Avenue is the most boring street in, well at least Cardiff, lined with the most boring apartment blocks you will find anywhere, all smothered with apologetic landscaping. Actually it is lined only on one side; the other is landscaped as a cordon sanitaire to Butetown."}, {"text_idx": "#000017", "text": "Mae Owen Hatherley yn awdur, blogiwr, cefnogwr Pulp a meddyliwr \u2013 am y cysylltiadau rhwng pensaerni\u0308aeth, cynllunio tref, adeiladau, gofod, gwleidyddiaeth ac ein cymdeithas a diwylliant fel dinesyddion yn yr oes o\u0302l-Llafur Newydd."}, {"text_idx": "#000019", "text": "Here I have to confess assuming that Arcades were something uniquely found in Paris and Piccadilly, so hence my previous idea that their presence in West Yorkshire was proof of the area\u2019s aptness for flanerie. Cardiff, however, has absolutely loads of iron-and-glass Arcades, albeit all in the same place, which carve unexpected and relatively intrigue-filled pathways through what would otherwise have been some Victorian alleyways. The Market has some great vintage signage on the outside, and the general atmosphere would have been perfect for a \u201930s Hitchcock film, at just the right level of seedy."}, {"text_idx": "#000020", "text": "Not all of central Cardiff is as interesting, but there\u2019s a good line in silliness in some of the architecture, which for the most part \u2013 excepting the invariably dreadful towers \u2013 can be quite entertaining. I\u2019d be especially interested to know what the FAT or AOC neo-postmodernist contingent think of buidings like the Cardiff Cineworld, which without ever quite being good, have at least a bit of fun with our prevailing modernism-on-the-cheap, as does the Millennium Stadium, although it\u2019s a shame the struts are painted white, when black or red would have taken the admirable tastelessness to a more charismatic level. There\u2019s one fine bit of late Brutalism, St David\u2019s Hall, in the middle of this, looking improbably chic and European Grey by comparison."}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "Rwyt ti\u2019n gallu darllen y cofnod llawn am Gaerdydd ar ei flog neu yn ei lyfr A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, yn ei eiriau \u201cawtopsi\u2019r dadeni trefol\u201d. Byddi di\u2019n edrych at y ddinas gyda llygaid newydd \u2013 er enghraifft, wnes i ddim sylwi\u2019r \u201cwal anifeiliaid\u201d gan Gitta Gschwendtner (ar y ffordd i Fae Caerdydd o Grangetown) cyn i mi ddarllen y cofnod yna."}, {"text_idx": "#000041", "text": "Dinas y digwyddiadau - dinas di enaid"}, {"text_idx": "#000042", "text": "Cynlluniau gwenwynig canol Caerdydd: mae dinas well yn bosibl"}]