How many landmark, sculptural towers can an Olympic Park have? The answer is probably only one, and perhaps that is Anish Kapoor's massive tower (News, AJ 21.01.10) - visualised by the Sunday Times as a set of deconstructed rings. So what of the Skylon, which was pencilled in for a 'comeback' in the East End nearly 60 years after it first wowed the public on the South Bank at the 1951 Festival of Britain? Project backer andrnformer RIBA president Jack Pringle is not hopeful.
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