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  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,092
    I thought that they had left the scaffolding tower in place to be honest.
    What particular function/form is this trying to represent, it certainly has no style, should do well in the 'turner' mind you
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,201
    A lot of people who go up it will be foreign tourists, many of whom may well have spent all their money "up west" normally, but will take a visit to the park and therefore bring in cash to one of Londons poorer areas, albeit only for a day. That's the legacy.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,201
    seems to be towers popping up all over the place.

    towers to be the new Ferris wheel? every city needs one.

    http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2012-05-11/council-inject-14m-into-i360-scheme/
    Completely off topic whilst we wait for LL but why do designers think that sticking an "i" in front of anything immediately gives whatever piece of rubbish they are designing any added value at all? Where's it all going to end I thought to myself this morning as I tucked into my icrunchynutflakes?


    Probably sponsorship BA?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,782
    It's ok but a couple of baloons like they have in Bournemouth with all the nations flags on them would have been better IMO.
  • DanDavis
    DanDavis Posts: 1,131
    There is something vaguely similar here in Atlanta (site of the 1996 games)

    http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/imagedays/olympicflametower.htm
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,813
    There is something vaguely similar here in Atlanta (site of the 1996 games)

    http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/imagedays/olympicflametower.htm
    At least the one in Atlanta serves a purpose.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    my daughter is there to the viewing gallery next week with the Scouts
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,829
    and that's all that's really reminds of the Olympics in Atlanta
  • DanDavis
    DanDavis Posts: 1,131
    Well that and the 21 acre Centennial Olympic Park right in the center of town and Turner Field (now home of the Atlanta Braves) which was converted from the Olympic Stadium.

    The games here brought massive regeneration of the inner city.....the population grew from 3.5 mill in 1996 to nearly 6.5 mill now.

    Feck knows what would happen if another 3 mill decided to move to London!
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,679
    Very kind of Mr Mittal but i'm sure there are a lot of poor people in India that could have done with some new Schools or a Hospital or two.

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,939
    Does this mean that every shop on the High Street is "publicly funded" then?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,390
    edited May 2012
    The Watts Towers in LA .. twice as attractive and cost about a fiver .. 20 million for a heap of scrap .. the monetary world HAS gone mad .. and we as a nation are sending aid to India while an Indian megamillionaire is defiling our country with this heap of rubbish !!
  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,063
    The Watts Towers in LA .. twice as attractive and cost about a fiver .. 20 million for a heap of scrap .. the monetary world HAS gone mad .. and we as a nation are sending aid to India while an Indian megamillionaire is defiling our country with this heap of rubbish !!
    Not a fan then?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,390
    The Watts Towers in LA .. twice as attractive and cost about a fiver .. 20 million for a heap of scrap .. the monetary world HAS gone mad .. and we as a nation are sending aid to India while an Indian megamillionaire is defiling our country with this heap of rubbish !!
    Not a fan then?
    hahahaha .. you must think me a right old misery guts .. NO NO NO to 'the pretzel tower' and NO NO NO NO NO to maroon kit with silly collars
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,127
    The Watts Towers in LA .. twice as attractive and cost about a fiver .. 20 million for a heap of scrap .. the monetary world HAS gone mad .. and we as a nation are sending aid to India while an Indian megamillionaire is defiling our country with this heap of rubbish !!
    Surely it is up to him what he spends his money on?
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,427
    posh scaffolding.
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,903
    At £15, they are definitely having a laugh.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,829
    it's £15 during the Olympics, likely to be less post games, it's less then the London eye, and about the same as the Blackpool tower
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,321
    The Watts Towers in LA .. twice as attractive and cost about a fiver .. 20 million for a heap of scrap .. the monetary world HAS gone mad .. and we as a nation are sending aid to India while an Indian megamillionaire is defiling our country with this heap of rubbish !!
    Surely it is up to him what he spends his money on?
    It is. He and his family choose to spend some on schools, hospitals and other charities
    http://www.mittal.com/socialactivities.htm
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,903
    it's £15 during the Olympics, likely to be less post games, it's less then the London eye, and about the same as the Blackpool tower
    If you have a travel card the London Eye is half price.

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  • Mckforester
    Mckforester Posts: 852
    Does anyone know when it's due to be finished? - not much time left now.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Am I missing something here? Are we all being forced to visit and go up this tower and pay £15 for the privilege?

    Someone paid $120m for a painting last week and it's one of four. One man's art is another mans space programme.

    Stop moaning LL and just let some people who enjoy this sort of thing enjoy it. After all it won't be costing you a penny.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,390
    Am I missing something here? Are we all being forced to visit and go up this tower and pay £15 for the privilege?

    Someone paid $120m for a painting last week and it's one of four. One man's art is another mans space programme.

    Stop moaning LL and just let some people who enjoy this sort of thing enjoy it. After all it won't be costing you a penny.
    some of the money, I am not sure how much, has come from the GLA or the Mayor's (Boris Johnson) funds, that is NOT his private funds b t w
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Which will create long term jobs in running and maintaining this tourist attraction for years.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,390
    edited May 2012
    3.1 million has been paid by the GLA towards this monument named for Mittal .. scandalous
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    About as scandalous as the money spent on The Humber Bridge just so 34 people a day have a shorter journey to work. :-)
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,390
    About as scandalous as the money spent on The Humber Bridge just so 34 people a day have a shorter journey to work. :-)
    now you are REALLY displaying your ignorance or was that intended to be a satirical understatement ?
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Am I?

    This is the Bridge which has just had £150m cut from its debt by the taxpayer. And for whose benefit?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,390
    Am I?

    This is the Bridge which has just had £150m cut from its debt by the taxpayer. And for whose benefit?
    the same 'type' of people who benefit from the Blackwall Tunnels, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, all other London Bridges and Tunnels (toll free), the Dartford Bridge and Tunnel, the M25 etc etc .. I don't really see the comparison betwen a public utility and a vanity project for a multimillionaire which has been part funded by the taxpayer whose interests you are keen to champion.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Capital expenditure on infrastructure is always worth every penny.

    I'm just pointing out that you're bemoaning about £3.1m being spent on something you don't think is worth it but will have a lasting legacy and will be visited by hundreds of thousand paying tourists over the next decade, yet we haven't heard a single peep from you about the £150m of public money that has just been spent on reducing the debt of the Humber Bridge so that you only have to pay half of what you were paying two months ago to cross.

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