what is london's worst building?

[kyser_soze]

Meh. After seeing a docco on what Tower Bridge could have looked like, and what we ended up with, for me it's a twee bit of Victorian fakery.

 

[ska invita]

The sorting office on New Oxford Street takes some beating in the don't fit in with your surroundings stakes

Mind you, twas a cracking venue for a couple of raves

would love to have been there for that.
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it made the papers this morning:

Police injured during violent clashes at suspected illegal rave in London

Seven Halloween revellers arrested after confronting police who tried to break up suspected illegal rave at disused building

more:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images...88522144979/Police-officers-injured-i-006.jpg

The article makes it sound like they got away with it - but once everyone had left i doubt the sound made it out

 

[ska invita]

Meh. After seeing a docco on what Tower Bridge could have looked like, and what we ended up with, for me it's a twee bit of Victorian fakery.

i went on a boat party last year, goes way out east up the thames from embankment, then back again. When you're coming into London from out east, the river makes lots of bends, and you pick your way through the industrial (once working) parts of the river - especially at night its pretty bleak. Then all of a sudden you make a last turn, and there's Tower Bridge (the first bridge you come to) - it looks amazing lit up at night, and the fanciness makes a nice contrast to the industrial stretch gone before.

It also acts like a very ornate front door to London - especially if it has to open to let you pass. It really made me realise that rivers were the motorways of the past, that allowed you to travel from the big cities of the world, and the bridge acts as the first sign that you have made it to London.

Id love to see some of the alternate designs, and I can see what you mean about it being a bit twee, but i was really impressed by it that night on the boat..

 

[kyser_soze]

Yeah, it does look great from a boat at night! Been a while since I've been on an evening boat trip/party, but for me the best bit of that trip is when you come round the corner and see Canary Wharf and attendent buildings - looks like a giant Xmas tree planted in the middle of the river when all the office lights are on

 

[laptop]

Yeah, it does look great from a boat at night! Been a while since I've been on an evening boat trip/party, but for me the best bit of that trip is when you come round the corner and see Canary Wharf and attendent buildings - looks like a giant Xmas tree planted in the middle of the river when all the office lights are on

I nominate all the other buildings except the original tower with the pyramid roof as London's worst.

The original looked great poking up above the Essex hills as you came in from Sarfend, too.

Now it's all messed up with banks' vanity lights.

 

[kyser_soze]

The triumvirate of Citi, HSBC & Barclays buildings I'm with you, but I really like the old Lehman's building and reckon 1 Canada Sq still looks pretty decent for a high-rise design that's over 25 years old.