Southbank to review FCBS plans after Boris backs skateboarders

摘要

The Southbank Centre is to review its proposed £120 million redevelopment yet again after the mayor of London 'unexpectedly' backed bids to save the skatepark beneath it. Last week Boris Johnson surprised the project team by saying he would only support Feilden Clegg Bradley s (FCBS) overhaul of the riverside complex if controversial plans to relocate the skatepark from under the Brutalist landmark were ditched. The Southbank Centre wants to redevelop the undercroft, which has been used by skaters since 1976, to build commercial units to help finance the rest of the 28,000m~2 Festival Wing project. The scheme, with its glazed 'liner'building and semi-transparent sky pavilion, was already redesigned once following criticism from design council CABE, The Twentieth Century Society and the National Theatre.