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Whitelock Street Leeds Student Residence News
13 May 2022
Celebrated local poet?s work to be cast in brickwork of new Leeds building
Location: Whitelock St, North Leeds, West Yorkshire, northern England, UK
Design: Howarth Litchfield Architects, Durham

Whitelock Street Leeds Student Residences for Alumno
As regeneration begins on a disused site in Whitelock Street, north of Leeds city centre, Alumno is planning a wide-ranging programme of artists commissions for its new development to support the city?s growing student population.
Alumno?s first arts project focuses on award-winning Yorkshire-based poet Zaffar Kunial, who has been commissioned to write two new works for the building, exploring both the natural and the artistic history of the area. The building?s atrium will include a large frieze based on an abstract painting by Terry Frost OBE. Frost took up painting in his 30s after serving in World War Two. After his tenure in Leeds as Gregory Fellow in 1954-1956, he taught at Leeds College of Art. Kunial is currently a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University and is developing a poem inspired by the work of Frost, which will be cast into the brickwork at the building?s entrance.

The new development will feature specially designed external spaces, including a ?rain garden? overlooking the Sheepscar Beck, which runs to the rear of the site before disapp...