Poole Meadow bus station in Coventry, built circa 1990, is a parody of classicism and post-modernism. It really is trash architecture which should be demolished immediately: it's crass, ugly and uses very unpleasant materials. There really is no excuse, and never has been, for this kind of urban detritus. Originally commissioned by Centro, the passenger transport executive for the West Midlands, it is now on the edge of the Phoenix initiative regeneration project by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, with its exciting range of integrated artists' commissions. Poole Meadow bus station really cannot hide any longer.
Postscript
Vivien Lovell is director of Modus Operandi Art Consultants and was previously founder director of the Public Art Commissions Agency.