Building of the Week: Smokestack

This week I focused on the Smokestack bar and club on Lower Briggate. I've only been here a couple of times before, but from word of mouth I know that it is a really popular bar in Leeds!

'SMOKESTACK OPENED IN NOVEMBER 2007, AS A PURPOSE BUILT BLACK MUSIC VENUE WITH A STRICT MUSIC POLICY OF BLUES, JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN AND REGGAE.'

Minor hiccup...

I'm having trouble finding the history of this building! (In all honesty I just painted it because I was a fan of the aesthetic of it!) Nevertheless, I have to remind myself that I am doing these building portraits because I enjoy them; putting too much emphasis on their purpose at this early stage could be a hinderance to their development.

Perhaps for next time I could formulate a bit more structure to this brief, by looking into how this series of portraits could develop in terms of range/distribution. But for now, I'm just going to have fun exploring illustrative architecture!