1969-75 by Chapman Taylor & Partners, in conjunction with City Planning Officer, Wilfred Burns. The height of the centre was kept to that of the surrounding buildings, but a multi-storey hotel clad in bronze anodized aluminium, designed by Arne Jacobsen was originally planned on the north side. Panelled brick walls on Blackett Street and Old Eldon Square, with a colonnaded balcony. On the terrace there is a bronze sculpture, 'Man and pigeons' by Andre Wallace, 1976. Linking bridge over Blackett Street was enhanced with a gable of blue glass in 1988. The north-west side with bus concourse and service access is blank because a dual carriageway was planned along here. Shop windows are later insertions. Inside the walkways are named after medieval streets. Frequent seats, planters, fountains etc. In 1988 the shopping centre was extended to the corner of Clayton Street and Newgate Street. In 1989 Eldon Garden was built, to a design by Fitch Bennoy. In 2007 Eldon Square regenerated and a new bus concourse constructed. McCombie - in the place of the west and north ranges of Old Eldon Square are blank-panelled brick elevations facing onto the green square, the upper level recessed behind a walkway; the height of the new build was kept to that of the surroundings. A first-floor pedestrian circulation was planned with ground-floor traffic and service roads, and a recreation centre within the top floor. Originally covering 7-8 acres, increasing to 13 and still expanding, the centre set new standards for such developments by retaining some original facades. Grainger's elevations to Nelson Street and the north end of Grainger Street remained, with inevitably awkward junctions. The south side of Blackett Street is mostly dull blank brick, the ground floor a colonnaded footpath, except for mirror-glazing near the Monument. The bridge over Blackett Street was widened and given a bright blue glass gable in 1988. In Percy Street and Old Eldon Square, forbidding blank brick walls have been enclosed in glass-fronted additions, 2006-8 by Comprehensive Design of Edinburgh. The old bus station behind the north side has been remodelled as retail space. The new bus station faces Percy Street. The side wall of the ramp from Northumberland Street is blank apart from sculpture salvaged from 1970s demolitions (the old library in New Bridge Street 1881, the YMCA in Blackett Street 1889 and the old Town Hall, Cloth Market 1858-63). The canopied entrance used to have a subtle 'E' on it, now replaced with the words 'Eldon Square'. The interior used to have rather fun huge pencils for seats. These have been replaced with round benches on steel cones. More top lighting has been introduced.

1974 by Ryder & Yates. Replaced a Men's Palace or itinerants hostel that had been demolished. Respects the height of the adjacent Keelmen's Hospital. Sweeps back from the road in an asymmetrical curve of brick and glass. Narrow windows. Now a Social Centre. Twentieth Century Society Building of the Month January 2010 - the building is curved and linear in blue brindle brick. The blue brickwork was also used inside. Gordon Ryder used a curve to replicate the curve in the proposed road improvement. The larger three storey range has bedrooms on ground and second floors and communal rooms on the first. 184 men could be accommodated. There were also day rooms, a restaurant, facilities for the elderly and a small hospital. The steel windows, which originally had bright green shutters, are designed so that three bedroom units could be from two if required. The central entrance has a curved access ramp and boomerang-shaped canopy on columns. The rooftop penthouse for the superintendent has an arched roof. The surrounding grounds are landscaped into 'earth sculptures'. Closed 2014. 2015 used as student accommodation to keep the building occupied.
The hostel was listed Grade II in 2015 with the following description:
Details
Men’s Social Services Centre for the Salvation Army, by Ryder & Yates, 1974. Blue brindle brick with steel windows.
PLAN: situated on the north side of City Road in an elevated position, adjacent to the early C18 Keelmen’s Hospital. The building occupies a site that slopes steeply from south to north. This curving, roadside accommodation block also has an integrated superintendent's rooftop apartment.
EXTERIOR: a three-storey block with a pronounced curve at its eastern end. The building has an asymmetric pattern of fenestration comprising numerous narrow single, paired or triple strip lights, pivoted vertically, to all floors; the irregularity reflects the intended flexible nature of the interior space.
South elevation: a central entrance giving direct entry to the ground floor is accessed via a curving, brick ramp, stepped at the west end and protected by a white boomerang-shaped canopy (with an underside of timber boards) raised on thin steel columns. The irregular arrangement of strip windows is interrupted at the east end by the first-floor dining room glass oriel window which is partly cantilevered out to mirror the curve of the building. At the west end, the south elevation of the rooftop apartment rises above the roof - its detailing is considered to be a direct visual reference to the roof line of the adjacent Keelmen’s Hospital, with its domed clock tower.
Right return: this is angled against a pre-existing right of way and is largely blind with the exception of a single strip window and a rectangular ground floor opening, probably a fire escape; the door of the latter is angled creating a deep jamb to one side.
Rear elevation: this is similarly detailed to the south elevation but lacks the first floor oriel window. It has an angled and deeply set ground floor window at its extreme south-east corner.
Landscaping: rising ground to the front (edged in brick) forms the approach to the building, which incorporates three convex earthworks revetted in stone; paths are paved in blue brick.
Roof top apartment and service core: at the west end the arched parabolic roof of the square apartment spans the full width of the roof. Its south elevation has a series of narrow, horizontal lights incorporating a single tall, arched window, the whole edged in white, picking up the detail of the main entrance canopy. The north elevation is similarly detailed but incorporates a tall square-headed window. The east elevation is also edged in white and contains a pair of original strip windows and a main, glazed entrance. The west elevation has a original stepped, three-light window and a door to the left. To the east of the apartment the central service core rises through the building and is expressed externally with its curvilinear shape and rounded ends clearly articulated in the blue brick of the rest of the building.
INTERIOR: exposed, painted brickwork throughout and corridors and stairs have coloured rubberised flooring. Doors to rooms are mostly original set in simple timber architraves, and those leading from the service areas have circular or oval lights. Lifts to each floor are also original with simple timber surrounds. The original stair remains in place within its curving, partly open stair tower; it rises up through the building to each floor and gives access out to the rooftop apartment. The steel staircase has open treads and a simple steel balustrade, curved within the curving stair tower and straight elsewhere. There are three floors of which the ground and second floors are of almost identical plan, with a curving spinal central space in which free-standing blocks of services including the stairtower, lifts and communal bathrooms stand; the central block and the west end of the more easterly blocks have pronounced curved ends. Narrow curving corridors flank this central space and give access to numerous narrow, rectangular rooms. At either end of the three floors there are fire escapes and larger rooms, those to the west end being original L-shape dormitories, some now fitted out as kitchens. The plan of the first floor is different to the others in housing the main living areas; a large former recreation room occupies the full width of the eastern half, which also contains the curving structural elements of the service core. The room retains its original plan and proportions, with the exposed steel roof beams supported on columns and slender columns supporting the cantilevered window, which retains original curved glazing.
Roof top apartment: the convex parabolic roof is evident throughout and there is a narrow off-centre L-shaped hallway, whose eastern end is wider by virtue of a convex south wall reminiscent of the curving stairwells elsewhere in the building; this wall forms one side of a small bathroom. To the right of the hall and occupying the north side of the building is a narrow rectangular bedroom with a door at each end, probably formerly two small rooms. Occupying the extreme western part of the apartment are a pair of rooms separated by a partition with glazed panels to its upper parts; that on the north side has a tall square-headed window with a similarly shaped light well and that on the south has a tall round-headed window with a round-headed light well. Both rooms also have windows overlooking a rooftop garden to the west and one has a door giving direct access. There is a small geometric lean-to building situated to the bottom of the garden. The south side of the apartment has a pair of small bedrooms. Doors throughout are original, although bathroom and kitchen fittings have been replaced.
EXCLUSIONS: the partially demolished rear range, the modern linking walkway and the rear compound walls are not of special interest and are excluded from the listing. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that all modern kitchen fittings and sanitary ware are not of special architectural or historic interest.

School shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1896.

By T.P. Bennett & Sons in conjunction with Sir Basil Spence. Planned in 1969 as a complete redevelopment of this area, with similar blocks intended to spread across as far as Broad Chare, but not completed. Built in exposed aggregate in pre-cast boxes with floor levels marked by deep grooves. Pevsner (1992) says that this demonstrates 'amazing self-confidence'. Only St. Cuthbert's House and St. Aidan's House were built, north and west of All Saints Church. Canted corners and concrete elevations.

'An uncompromising glass-clad tower block of 1972-8 by Hubbard, Ford & Partners, with a lower block towards The Side clad in brick and with diagonal boarding hiding the car-park'. Re-clad circa 2000 by Ove Arup & Partners.

To the right of the first landing of Castle Stairs there is a restored medieval well.

Built for the Bank of Chicago by Mauchlen, Weightman & Elphick in 1971-4. Smooth ashlar cladding and full-height oriels {1}. Formerly the Bank of Chicago. 1971-4 by Mauchlen Weightman & Elphick. The full-height oriels might be homage to the bank's Chicago skyscraper. Two-storey mansard. Subway is on the ground floor, with offices above.

The first high-rise office block in Newcastle. A speculative development of 1961 designed by Williamson, Faulkner Brown & Partners. Twelve storeys on a wide two-storey podium. Exposed aggregate concrete panels, black concrete verticals, white mosaic panels below the long strips of windows. Demolished 2007. Replaced by a new build 2009.

1987-90 by Bullen & Partners. Built by Edmund Nuttall Ltd for the Newcastle Western Bypass. A twin, five-span, prestressed, post-tensioned, concrete box structure, 330m long. Constructed using the balanced cantilever method. Paired elliptical-section reinforced concrete piers. 17-span approach viaduct on south side.

1964-7 by Mott, Hay & Anderson. Built by Mitchell Construction/Dorman Long to replace a suspension bridge of 1831. Steel arch of 100.5m span with suspended box girder deck. The two arch ribs were originally tied with wire cables but these were replaced with tie-bars when they corroded. Pevsner (1992) describes it as "a very lively bridge".