The Wills Building is a listed Art Deco style building on the coast road which is only surviving section of the WD and HO Wills Factory building designed and built in the late 1940s.

Newcastle City Hall is a 2,000 seat concert venue and the home of the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra.

The 1988 purpose-built BBC headquarters in Barrack Road, one of the most modern BBC regional centres.