They look clean and modern and, oh so just ‘now’. Who wouldn't like them. Trouble is back in the 1960’s anything tall and made from bare concrete looked clean and modern, in the 70’s the same but concrete with a bit of paint, in the 80’s concrete with a bit of glass, 90’s concrete with the lifts on the outside, 2000’s concrete with a brick facing, and today concrete with curved glass. Architects from the 1960’s have been saying their buildings are timeless and local councils from the 60’s have fallen for it and allowed them to be built.And guess what; 60’s looks horrible, 70’s looks horrible, 80’s beginning to look horrible, etc, etc. How long before these Hounslow blobs start to look just as bad? Any building that follows the current fashion ends up looking as bad as a pair of bell-bottom trousers and tank-top on the Bay City RollersAnd 22 stories! With the new proposal for the octopus thing at 32 stories, the ‘enabling’ development for the football club at 20 odd stories, that’s a higher housing density than Hong Kong island. Add in the motorway, construction lorries, a possible 3rd Heathrow runway, additional cars for all these residents and the already far in excess of legal maximum air pollution is only going one way.
Lorne Gifford ● 3562d