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It's a bit like an unwanted Christmas/Birthday present from a relative, after a decent period for emotions to die down it's dumped at the charity shop - or Olympic Park.
It'll probably get nicked when scrap prices go up - with the car park nearby it'll be easy to load. |
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With the spirit of the Olympics being about bringing nations together in friendly competition, it does seem an odd location for a memorial to an event that has set nations against other in warfare. I've every respect for the wish to commemorate 9/11, but this does seem a perverse location. The design also doesn't project much sense of hope, either.
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I saw it earlier this week while passing on the 339 bus and thought at the time that it must be the 911 sculpture, I quite like the location and do not have a problem with it, if your exploring the Olympic Park its just another corner with another interesting thing to go visit and look at.
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Surely somewhere near the 7/7 memorial in Hyde Park would have made more sense, although it is getting a little difficult to turn around in some of the parks now without tripping over a memorial to this or that worthy cause. 9/11 was awful, but it didn't happen here.
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Surely a better place would have been for it to remain in Battersea, near the new US Embassy?
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When the "hoohah" blew up in the press, Boris needed to place the statue somewhere he actually controls, hence it was promised to the Olympic Park.
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It'll be vandalised at some stage with graffitti
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Why do we want this piece of c**p in the Olympic Park. It will be a magnet for idiot extremists to vandalise or to meet there and promote the martyrs and culture that caused it.
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Is it just me...or does the top have a almost "humanist symbolism" to it?
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I think it would be better placed somewhere in the City, which has also suffered terrorist attacks and which is a close relative of New York, also being a financial hub. On the actual piece, I'm only judging by the description above and the photos, but it strikes me as being more of a museum piece than an art work. As a piece of debris, it could be very well placed in a museum, where it would be better appreciated.
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In Europe we should be referring to this as the 119 memorial. It is not a Porche after all.
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I remember this piece in Battersea Park, all the more moving for being unexpected and incongruous.
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67 British lives were lost, so it is fitting that this memorial should be in London. Why not in this extraordinary park, to remind us of the bad things that happen, as well as the good?
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I agree with Kirk and Roehamster, it oughta be near the new US Embassy. It memorializes a horrible action that took many US and UK lives. A month after it happened my wife and I flew over Manhattan Island on the way to visit London. It was still burning and smoke was rising high.
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"Rusting in a farmyard in Cambridgeshire" would seem to be an appropriate fate for such structure.
Why try to improve upon that? |
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Well, I went to see the unveiling: I'd have to say the speeches and ceremony all seemed pretty 'right and proper' to me.
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Afterthought: if there was anything of a disappointment it was finding that the ceremony was non-public, behind security fences (something I hadn't seen any pre-announcement about).
I imagine it was mainly to do with the presence of the US Ambassador |
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