Harvey Nichols sign goes up in Cabot Circus
The sign for the Bristol's new upmarket fashion store Harvey
Nichols went up yesterday with just 28 days to go before the
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Harvey Nichols sign goes up in Cabot Circus
opening of Cabot Circus.
The three-storey store sits at the foot of the landmark
tower at the corner of the Quakers Friars part of the £500
million development which has been designed as a European style
piazza.
Inside shopfitters are working against the clock to get
everything ready for opening day, September 25.
French-born architect Christian Biecher, who designed Harvey
Nichols' Hong Kong and Dublin stores, has created a luxurious
interior for the 35,000 sq ft store which will feature
gold-coloured columns, a 90-seat restaurant on the second floor
and a champagne bar.
All the main building work on Cabot Circus is now complete
and teams of shopfitters are busy on the interiors of the 135
shops and restaurants.
More than 90 per cent of the units have now been let.
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by ADRIAN, Bristol
Monday, September 08 2008, 2:43PM
“I will now be able to pop in to get my fav mineral water, at £90 a btl, and won't have to keep doing my return trip to london in a taxi”
by Philip Morris, Barton Hill
Monday, September 08 2008, 5:26AM
“I shall be there on opening day, buy something - like toothpaste -0 as I did at Bentills - Remember that name 'going up' it soon came down as well.
This 'Circus' is all very well - the only problem it will not be as easy to move as one that set's up on the Downs.”
by Limited Credibility, Bristol
Thursday, August 28 2008, 3:26PM
“I'm not mad on the "circus" part either Steve. Very demeaning to men with differently sized feet and squirty flowers not to mention ladies who choose not to shave their faces.”
by A NON Bristolian, BRISTOL
Thursday, August 28 2008, 3:24PM
“I have never heard of Harvey Nic's. Well until everyone went crazy about this store coming to Bristol. To be honest Bristolians aren't exactly rich and this shop will go bust in a month. Wasn't pound strecher there b4. Now that was a bargain shop!!!”
by Steve, North Bristol
Thursday, August 28 2008, 2:13PM
“The name "Merchants Quarter" was dropped because of links to the Merchant Venturers and thus the slave trade.
How come no-one objected to "Cabot Circus" on the grounds that his vouage was funded by the Merchant Venturers and his vouage opened up the opportunity for the Merchant Venturers to profit from the triangular slave route?”
by Chris, bristol
Thursday, August 28 2008, 1:27PM
“I thought Merchants Quarter was a better name. It pretty much sums up what it's all about. The poor servicing the indulgent whims of the rich. Plus ça change.”
by Edina, Bristol
Thursday, August 28 2008, 12:46PM
“Yes, George sweetie, but LaCroix darling, LACROIX ! Visit it for me, stop sounding so drab and make yourself look gorgeous for once.”
by George, Bristol
Thursday, August 28 2008, 12:33PM
“Who cares about a sign? It's just a tag, like a graffiti artists'.
The whole development is an ugly, monstrous vaccuous space, and will be highly damaging to our city in terms of increased (car) traffic congestion, isolating the poor and will add nothing to our culture or heritage.
It should be renamed the Cabot Cicus - Cathederal to Consumerism. It is a vile, vile creation.”
by Edina, Bristol
Thursday, August 28 2008, 12:21PM
“Lovely sign sweetie but are they doing draught Stolly-Bolly in their darling little champagne bar ? Hmm, HMMM ?”
by Ian, Merchants Quarter
Thursday, August 28 2008, 12:10PM
“Where is Cabot Circus?”