HANSOM OOH MATRON!

摘要

The campaign to rebuild the 300ft Skylon tower on London's South Bank, designed by Powell & Moya for the 1951 Festival of Britain, may be gathering pace, but not everybody's impressed. While former RIBA president Jack Pringle is poring over the original drawings to reconstruct "one of the most awe-inspiring structures ever seen", his staff at Pringle Brandon are not so bowled over. One moans: "Jack's cleared half of the office out for this so he can get a film crew in to cover it. All this effort for something that has already been designed seems a bit much really." Sounds like the campaign needs to start a little closer to home ... Elsewhere, the London Festival of Architecture is having more luck bringing the public closer to the built form. Apparently, Wilkinson Eyre's Anything But Grey installation in Benjamin Street Gardens is proving particularly attractive. One poor junior staffer sent out to close the installation for the night was shocked to discover two architecture fans so inspired by the erection that ... well, they were enjoying one of their own. As one amused architectural source was heard to say: "Well, it is a festival, isn't it?"