A Japanese developer has been announced it will demolish a new tower of luxury flats in Tokyo only weeks from completing. The reason? The 10-storey building was blocking beautiful views of Mount Fuji. V 2. The idea a developer would reach such a decision in Britain is inconceivable. In London, flats are usually built to make a profit. If they have a beautiful view, good luck to those who buying them. To hell with anyone else’s beauty. Ответ 3. One of what was the government’s last decision greenlighting a huge 20-storey concrete slab that is being about to rise on the banks of the Thames next to the National Theatre. Ответ 4. It is hideous, and will dominate the once-glorious view of the St Paul’s cathedral from Waterloo Bridge. Paradoxically, its developer is a Japanese Corporation Mitsubishi. Ответ 5. Beauty is a word you never hear in British election campaigns. They are about money and little else. In Tokyo, the dignified regulation of the public sector does matters. Ответ 6. Maintaining the beauty of the environment is not a nimby fad but a duty expected of government in the public’s interest and pleasure. Ответ 7. The current collapse of planning control in the capital has seen two Nine Elms towers to rise almost 60 storeys, making Big Ben look like a toothpick in comparison. Last week, another “luxury” monster was announced up-river, near Battersea Park. Ответ 8. The company behind the scheme is spotted a subsidiary of Cerberus Capital Management, run by an American billionaire, Stephen Feinberg. Ответ 9. These towers now are litter the Thames, being mostly foreign-owned and empty. A Guardian survey of one Vauxhall tower revealed just 10% of its occupants are British. Ответ 10. The new Battersea tower could hardly be more out of place. It will soar as a ghostly presence over the visually delicate neighbourhood of Chelsea. It will also tower over the secluded acres of the park and continue the conversion of the Thames into an utterly urban canyon. Ответ 11. I cannot imagine another world city that would permit such visual outrages. Parisians laugh with derision at what has been done to London’s skyline. Romans are astonished. Americans ask, but who is in charge? Ответ 12. No one consults London’s citizens in any meaningful way on these planning decisions. They are visible assertions of the power of a greed. Ответ 13. High-buildings policy in the capital is supposedly overseen by the mayor, at present Sadiq Khan. Like his predecessors, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson, he has no sense of beauty. Government ministers also hardly refuse to interfere because their party coffers are stuffed by the building lobby. Ответ 14. In Tokyo, we see democracy working. The Fuji affair is that of a community demanding that the beauty of its surroundings shall be respected by elected authority. Ответ 15. The sadness is that no British politician has the guts to tell Mitsubishi to show London the deference to beauty demanded in Japan.
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The idea a developer would reach such a decision in Britain is inconceivable. In London, flats are usually built to make a profit. If they have a beautiful view, good luck to those who buying them. To hell with anyone else’s beauty.
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One of what was the government’s last decision greenlighting a huge 20-storey concrete slab that is being about to rise on the banks of the Thames next to the National Theatre.
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It is hideous, and will dominate the once-glorious view of the St Paul’s cathedral from Waterloo Bridge. Paradoxically, its developer is a Japanese Corporation Mitsubishi.
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Beauty is a word you never hear in British election campaigns. They are about money and little else. In Tokyo, the dignified regulation of the public sector does matters.
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Maintaining the beauty of the environment is not a nimby fad but a duty expected of government in the public’s interest and pleasure.
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The current collapse of planning control in the capital has seen two Nine Elms towers to rise almost 60 storeys, making Big Ben look like a toothpick in comparison. Last week, another “luxury” monster was announced up-river, near Battersea Park.
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The company behind the scheme is spotted a subsidiary of Cerberus Capital Management, run by an American billionaire, Stephen Feinberg.
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These towers now are litter the Thames, being mostly foreign-owned and empty. A Guardian survey of one Vauxhall tower revealed just 10% of its occupants are British.
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The new Battersea tower could hardly be more out of place. It will soar as a ghostly presence over the visually delicate neighbourhood of Chelsea. It will also tower over the secluded acres of the park and continue the conversion of the Thames into an utterly urban canyon.
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I cannot imagine another world city that would permit such visual outrages. Parisians laugh with derision at what has been done to London’s skyline. Romans are astonished. Americans ask, but who is in charge?
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No one consults London’s citizens in any meaningful way on these planning decisions. They are visible assertions of the power of a greed.
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High-buildings policy in the capital is supposedly overseen by the mayor, at present Sadiq Khan. Like his predecessors, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson, he has no sense of beauty. Government ministers also hardly refuse to interfere because their party coffers are stuffed by the building lobby.
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In Tokyo, we see democracy working. The Fuji affair is that of a community demanding that the beauty of its surroundings shall be respected by elected authority.
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The sadness is that no British politician has the guts to tell Mitsubishi to show London the deference to beauty demanded in Japan.