This is 24 Fenchurch Street, aka the walkie-talkie building, from the Monument in London. Another in the long list of architectural eyesores inflicted on the british public
Architects being what they are, the design meeting probably went like this:
"What do you think of this one, then?"
"Well, it's pig-ugly, and everyone will hate it".
"Great! Let's build it at once!"
But this building isn't just painful to look at. It has the power to inflict actual damage on its surroundings. Yesterday this story came out:
'walkie talkie' scyscraper melts jaguar car parts
Yep, the concave glass wall is reflecting destructively powerful rays down onto the street below. A journalist has even managed to fry an egg in it.
I wonder if this possibility was pooh-poohed at the design meeting, along with all the other qualms about its looming disproportionate bulk overshadowing the Tower of London?
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