• Will this brute of a building herald a new assault on London’s skyline? | Rowan Moore

    Will this brute of a building herald a new assault on London’s skyline? | Rowan Moore
    Developers swoop on areas like the south bank. The onus is on planning officers to reject ugly schemesThere’s a bend in the Thames that gives special prominence to the buildings along it. Here, between Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges, the south bank of the river bulges outwards, such that anything that stands there takes its place among the north bank’s array of monuments – the Houses of Parliament, Somerset House, St Paul’s Cathedral.If the elaborate British planning sy

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