5.Abbey Walk Multi-storey Car Park, Grimsby, UK

3D Model

The Abbey Walk multi-storey car park in Grimsby, England was closed in May 2024 due to structural issues. The council plans to demolish the car park and replace it with a ground-level facility. The car park was built in 1969 by Holst & Company of Scunthorpe. The pillars of the car park feature modernist reliefs by artist and sculptor Harold Gosney.

The reliefs depict parts of a car and were inspired by drawings in the handbook of the artist’s Austin Cambridge estate car and were installed when the building was constructed. There are 40 concrete panels on the structure, each featuring one of four designs in a repeated fashion.

A team, Kevin Hallsworth and Martin Bridges from the University of Lincoln, have 3D scanned the concrete relief sculptures to digitally preserve them before the impending demolition of the car park.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ljk0wxwq4o#:~:text=Work%20has%20begun%20to%20preserve,penetrating%20some%20of%20its%20beams.

Artec Leo scanner and processed with Artec 18 software