Cross-text multiple matching
You are going to read four extracts from articles about the future of Northgate Library, a concrete public building from the 1960s. For questions 1-4, choose from the writers A-D. The writers may be chosen more than once.
Should a 1960s concrete library be restored or replaced?
Compare viewpoints across four writers
Writer A, architectural historian
An architectural historian discusses the building’s design, its reputation, the costs and the environmental arguments.
Northgate Library is one of the finest public buildings the city produced after the war, and its board-marked concrete, deep-set windows and generous reading rooms deserve far more respect than they get. It is also, I admit, not much loved; most residents I speak to regard it as a grey fortress and would happily see it go. That makes the financial case all the more important, and here the figures favour restoration clearly: repairing the concrete and replacing the heating and wiring would cost perhaps two-thirds of a new building. I am less persuaded by the environmental argument that is often made for keeping it. A well-designed replacement would use a fraction of the energy, and over sixty years that saving would more than repay the carbon spent in building it.
Which writer has a different view from the others on the architectural quality of the building?
Which writer shares C’s opinion on how much restoring the building is likely to cost?
Which writer takes a similar view to D on the environmental argument for keeping the building?
Which writer has a different view from the others on how local people feel about the library?
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