VIEW FROM THE CREW

摘要

A small charity has succeeded in its mission to get the youth of Newham involved in the regeneration of their borough and get their design opinions heard - but funding problems could see those same voices silenced. The trek to the top of St Paul's can leave you wheezing. But a 15-year-old kid called Barry manages it easily. He even has the energy on conquering the summit to lean over a stone wall, ruminate, then point madly at the skyline. 'That's really awful,' he says, flailing his arms at Norman Foster's Swiss Re building. 'It looks like an Easter egg.' This is unlikely to make Foster, who earlier this month was training in the Alps for a ski marathon, quake in his salopettes. But Barry hails from Newham, at the heart of the Thames Gateway in east London. One of Britain's largest regeneration projects is being pile-drived into his doorstep.