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First impression - 'orrible.
Great Aunt Annie | 25.04.10 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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I have just added my feedback as follows:
I am very upset that the public who will have to put up with this, especially the locals have not been consulted on the design. I am a lover of Kapoor's work but this piece leaves me speechless, I think it is awful and just a way for Mr Mittal to let everyone know he is a steel billionaire.
I object totally to the design. Consultation is required. The Olympic park is at the end of my street.
Vicki Garner | 25.04.10 - 10:30 a.m. | #
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looking at the pictures people appear to be walking to the observation area. that must be some climb, I hope there is a lift as well!.
Should be some nice views.
It is a shame that London does not open public viewing areas on some of its taller buildings. As is done in other cities in the world. I think the "Shard" tower when it's finished will have a viewing gallery, so maybe that could be a start of a trend.
John | 25.04.10 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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Good (fiercely negative)comment on it in the current issue of the Architectural Review.
Pity the proposal to remake the Skylon was sidelined. That would have been both very elegant and rooted in London's recent history.
Otter | 25.04.10 - 12:48 p.m. | #
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Architects tend not to like 'engineered' structures. Maybe I'm odd? I'm quite excited by it. Aren't 'controversial' structures always popular in the long run?
B | 25.04.10 - 12:56 p.m. | #
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The first time I saw an article about this was on April 1, and I honestly thought it was an April Fool.* Please, DG and other Londoners, feed back all you're worth. For those of us further away, do you know if they can see our IP addresses if we leave comments?
*My spoof detectors have clearly not been at their best this year, as Blue Witch can attest ;-)
Claire in Osaka | 25.04.10 - 1:05 p.m. | #
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Seems to me this confabulation of the architects's vision lacks the elegant simplicity of the Eiffel tower or the London Eye.
So... a new landmark that will be asked last the ages will be built. But lacking the focused elegance of the Eiffel tower, and without the fulfilling completeness of the London Eye... you will be left with a ginormous pretzel to figure out.
A symbol for the modern age? It's too bad there isn't at least a Disney-ride type rail to ride it back down for fun....
:0)
John Nez | Homepage | 25.04.10 - 4:25 p.m. | #
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I dunno! It might grow on my, but I won't have to look at it every day! First impressions are the same as Great Aunt Annie's! It looks like it's too heavy and buckling under the weight of the satellite! Maybe a different colour, like silver, would work better? Corporation Red looks a bit shabby already!
CornishCockney | 25.04.10 - 7:45 p.m. | #
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Hideous. It doesn't look elegant it looks tortured.
And if you can see this from your flat/street/garden that means the people up on the observation deck - who will, no doubt, be provided with all sorts of means of amplifying theIr view (if it's set up like every other viewing platform in the world) - will be able to see you. Privacy. Who needs it.
Rose | 26.04.10 - 1:48 a.m. | #
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"Architects tend not to like 'engineered' structures." That was one of my first thoughts. The architects won't like it and that throws a spanner in the works.
Personally, I quite like it. Kapoor is one of Britain's (and India's) greatest living artists and I feel confident that the reality will look even better than the mock-up.
Chz | 26.04.10 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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"unwanted, unloved...olympic games"
by who? I'm ridiculously excited about it, and so is everyone I know. Except for my mother.
I also quite like the big red thing. I think it'll end up being really popular.
Geoff | Homepage | 26.04.10 - 12:38 p.m. | #
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I agree with Geoff, I am very, very excited about the Olympic games, I have just taken against the big, red train crash by Kapoor. Zahar Hadid's aquatics centre is so elegant - all the more strikingly so with all that twisted steel next to it.
Vicki Garner | 27.04.10 - 9:51 a.m. | #
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I'm quite aware that the Olympics has some nasty politics involved, but I fail to understand how team sports are 'fascist' - and anyway, the majority of olympic medals are for individuals not teams. I've also never understood why so many people take such pride in hating sport - you may not like it, but at least recognise that the majority of people in this country do enjoy sport in various forms. And there's nothing anti-intellectual about it in the main.
Geoff | Homepage | 28.04.10 - 1:17 a.m. | #
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No really Greg, don't say it again. We heard how angry you were the first time. Once was more than enough.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.04.10 - 4:33 p.m. | #
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