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Posted: 30 Mar 2017

Taken: 29 Mar 2017

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A Skyline Distressed - 29 March 2017

A Skyline Distressed - 29 March 2017
Many will disagree with me but, I hope, many will agree. The skyline of London is distressed, a definition of incoherence. It seems that each building design is approved on its individual merits with no thought for the overall effect on the city. The extent to which construction continues is evidenced by the appalling forest of cranes punctuating the buildings which have been completed. Of course, I expect a city to develop but with a plan and here there seems to be none.

This view north east from the Viewing Level of Switch House at Tate Modern serves to reinforce all these points. The comfortable, classic architecture of Cannon Street station and the Vintners' Hall is overshadowed by the steel and glass misjudgements which are now the symbols of the City.

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 Peggy C
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Agree with your comments --- it happens in the US many times when the buildings just must be bigger. One of my favorite buildings in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was built prior to The Empire State Building in New York City.
The RJ Reynolds Building, it was named, has been overshadowed by glass and steel ' boxes '.

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