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Yes, sounds wonderful. But, will anybody be able to afford to live there or will it be another chunk of our town flogged off to overseas “investors”?
Jo W | 20.12.21 - 7:14 a.m. | #
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Oooh, you're going to get some flack from this one...
Are you going to publish the emails/writs you get?
Blue Witch | Homepage | 20.12.21 - 7:29 a.m. | #
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Even worse than the hyperbole is the grim “architecture” ... our city is being trashed.
Liz | 20.12.21 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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I hope "bolxness" joins "dangleway" in everyday use.
Mike | 20.12.21 - 8:10 a.m. | #
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Disappointing that they failed to get “hub” in there somewhere. I don’t think they were really trying
Tom Roper | 20.12.21 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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I beg your pardon, they did
Tom Roper | 20.12.21 - 8:13 a.m. | #
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Those new towers look nice, hope ordinary Londoners can afford live there.
John | 20.12.21 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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What a time to be alive!
Chris | 20.12.21 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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A small separate building at the rear of the development (with no river view) will provide 40 affordable homes.
Funding from the developers will also go towards delivering about 280 affordable homes elsewhere in Southwark.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 20.12.21 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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Priceless, just priceless.
My bullshit bingo card was overwhelmed.
Rob Gullen | 20.12.21 - 8:36 a.m. | #
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In the flurry of bolx, it was "chinny reckon" that made me laugh. Thanks for the throwback to my now distant school days!
Frank F | 20.12.21 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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I had a great laugh reading this, thanks! Almost as much as a laugh as the people had whilst coming up with this stuff, I expect.
cau1khead | 20.12.21 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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Interesting how it is the “definitive cultural neighbourhood” yet forced out a unique cultural institution like XXL. A good bit of raindow-washing…
David | 20.12.21 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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This has brought to mind the verbally elaborate introductions delivered by Leonard Sachs as master of ceremonies on The Good Old Days. They were fun and tongue and in cheek; this hyperbole is just repellent.
Waterhouse | 20.12.21 - 8:57 a.m. | #
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I wonder if they will improve the riverside walkway between Blackfriars Bridge and the rail bridge, which is prone to flooding. I assume they will - can't have the residents getting their gucci shoes wet, but could find nothing clear on the website.
Greg | 20.12.21 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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Despite all that they managed to give it a dismal sounding name.
kev | 20.12.21 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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Is there a single Yard in this place?
Scott | Homepage | 20.12.21 - 9:46 a.m. | #
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Hypermixity = Mixed-use development hype. Maybe?
One positive from a timeline on the project website. 2020 Construction is underway to restore and connect the lost intersection between the South Bank and Bankside for the first time in 150 years.
Rod | 20.12.21 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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'UK's first' rather than 'world's first'?
Carllo | 20.12.21 - 9:58 a.m. | #
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Hypermixity is a good name for a DJ set...
Mikey C | 20.12.21 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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I remember Hyper Hyper in Kensington High Street. And Stevie Hyper D (RIP)
MAtt | 20.12.21 - 11:08 a.m. | #
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Since I first read the term 'bolx' I must have typed this out on more than a couple of dozen occasions. For me it has replaced 'bollux', which in itself had replaced 'bollocks'.
I therefore promise never to use hypermixity - anywhere other than in very close proximity a hypermixed development!
'Hyper' has never really caught on despite the try-ers. The motorcycling press began using the word 'superbike' in the late 70's - early 80's and it's still regularly used.
By the mid 90's they tried 'hyperbikes', for the next generation of near 300kph motorcycles. Never did catch on. Bit like trying to badge yourself as a 7* hotel - you're just a 5 - with a few of the extras some others do have.
Dave | 20.12.21 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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Bingo! Though I did spend more time than I wanted checking my card in vain for "unprecedented."
I fear the "Quality streets" have nothing to do with a disused on-site confectionary factory either!
Cornish Cockney | 20.12.21 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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It's not so much TLDR, as so annoying I couldn't read. I'm obviously not the target audience if reading their bolxness brings me out in a rash.
Simon | Homepage | 20.12.21 - 11:37 a.m. | #
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So, so depressing. Especially 'heritage' explicitly relegated to 'characterful backdrop'.
Sarah | Homepage | 20.12.21 - 12:13 p.m. | #
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Hypermixity. Isn't that the name of the group that sang Andorra's trial Eurovision entry in 2003?
dg writes: No
Stuart R | 20.12.21 - 12:20 p.m. | #
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It seems these towers will cast a significant summertime shadow over the solar panels fitted to the rail bridge. Solar panels are very sensitive to partial shading and will suffer, I suspect, a significant drop in power generation if this goes ahead. Good work! Heron Tower already has had their vertical solar facade blocked by the adjacent tower built afterwards- but helped them pass planning anyway.
Noel Moore | 20.12.21 - 12:32 p.m. | #
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My concern other than it's only more accommodation for a few where more is needed for the people who really live here, is that the development will overwhelm some nearby rather nice pubs, and the new 'locals' (assuming the places ARE lived in) will give LU staff in Southwark station loads of grief.
Joel | 20.12.21 - 2:57 p.m. | #
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Beyond parody.
coffin dodger | 20.12.21 - 3:50 p.m. | #
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I was part of a team of architects that sat around a conference room table and came up with some of that exact same crap. I was nearly silent that afternoon and after eating the free lunch the developer brought in for us, I updated my resume (CV) and started looking for a different job in a different drafting field. The soul-sucking experience ruined architecture for me.
Steven | 20.12.21 - 5:30 p.m. | #
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Hooray, despite only having lived in London for precisely 2 weeks, I can at last add a comment to a DG blog post. The previous building - Sampson House - was designed by my brother's father-in-law when he was a partner at Fitzroy Robinson in Gray's Inn Road. And as Wikipedia correctly notes, it was Lloyds Bank's computer centre, in the days when these all had to be reasonably close to HQ.
My part in all of this was that my very first paid grown-up employment was to spend 2 weeks in the basement of FR's offices eliminating all the duplicate project paperwork so it could be archived. Taught me a great deal about what an architect really does and how most 'creations' owe far more to the structural engineers, contractors and QS's. After all, we see from today's superlative post just what bolx they produce. From all the correspondence, drawings etc, in Sampson House's case all the architect seemed to do on the creative front was decide where the windows went. Nearly all the rest was project, client and contractor management.
WestDr | 20.12.21 - 7:13 p.m. | #
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Here in Salford we have 'New Maker Yards'
Utter shite. Try to find space for a bench and vice - not one within 2 miles, nor anyone who knows what one is. Utter, utter, utter dog shite.
mark addy | 20.12.21 - 9:09 p.m. | #
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Oh, maybe this sudden and rapid spread of Omicron is due to that hyped-up spate of hypermixity then. I must keep away from Bankside.
Herbof | 20.12.21 - 10:56 p.m. | #
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A minor point but I do love "best-in-class". It just means "the best". But saying "best-in-class" sounds a bit techy, a bit start-up, a bit agile. Ooh.
Michqel | 21.12.21 - 1:30 a.m. | #
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