London's £2,000,000 Artificial Hill: Visiting the Marble Arch Mound - TLDR Now
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2021
- The Marble Arch Mound is London's newest (and worst rated) tourist attraction. Setting the council back £2,000,000 we thought we'd visit and see what all the excitement is about. So in this video we explain the Marble Arch Mound, what went wrong and the controversy surrounding it.
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I hear that Disneyland is a GHOST TOWN now that this has opened!
Lmao
Legoland is SCREWED
Best of the day!
Alton Towers had shut up shop...
Not to worry, this is also a ghost town
Probably costs £100k, the rest spent on ‘expenses and bonuses’
Consultancy fees
Yes I expect someone somewhere it’s someone’s mate who did the work and cashed in.
Well said..it's repugnant and disgusting
@@nbarrett100 also known as "lining someone's pockets" fees
I guess those cough... *dirty politicians* cough.... in Hong Kong learn stuff from England.....
"So how do we stop people from just buying everything off of Amazon?"
"... build a hill and charge people to walk up it."
"Magnificent."
like we're they high? like wut?😂😂😂🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
"So how do highlight the climate change 🐂💩 and the culture of waste"? "Build a large mound with grass and trees" Could of spent two million on some fruit trees and planted them in London parks.
I can see the problem and the desire to solve said problem. However if this is what was created I would love to see what was rejected.
No you don't as you'll probably see plenty of solutions to the problem that were much better and probably cheaper!!! Let's just pretend if was the "best" idea.
Housing for the super rich?
Maybe someone proposed digging a PIT in the middle of London, magically revitalising the economy somehow when hordes of tourists throw themselves into it for no particular reason.
What was the exact problem formulated that had to be solved? That UK do not have any marbles left after Brexit?
@@stopthenames something like this hasn't really been built b4 in this country so there are going to be mistakes first time
Here in Perth, Australia we have an annual thing where art installations by local artists are set up at the beach. Great for the local economy, everyone loves it and the art gets sold afterwards. This hill is just awful.
Willem, you know that you are a subject of the commonwealth/CANSuck-Nations? Now when UK have turned their back to 500.000.000 people ten miles away from their border there is a lot of "shit" like this awful hill you may have to buy! Don't be surprised is this monstrosity of crap hill pops up in a park near you soon in Austalia.... (I really respect Australian people, even if this came up a bit rude!)
@@sideduck6501 You didn't come across as rude, just unintelligible.
@@sideduck6501 you aren’t rude, just uninformed. Commonwealth citizens haven’t been classified as ‘subjects’ for decades, and the UK has no constitutional or legal right to influence or force us to do anything. Keep your shitty hill.
@@tacosmexicanstyle7846 But we don't want the shitty thing! Someone, just take it away. PLEASE.
Sculpture by the sea. Amazing initiative.
This was purely a bad idea, I'd never pay to get on top of a two minute walk hill. Even if it would look like in the renders.
Tickets starting from 4.50 for a few minutes of looking from a small artificial hill
Yeah…. Why make it a paid attraction?!?
@@budams4668Simple- it's a very rich borough run by Tories who think the plebs are either stupid enough to pay, or poor enough to be kept away, thus preventing them from sullying the council's nice bit of nature with their disgusting peasant boots.
Im from Yorkshire and i can walk outside and find this within a minute or so
@@sharpyversiontwo1152 no luckily there is nothing that shit in Yorkshire, don't do yourself down HAHA
Why is the entrance paid? You can go up stairs for free anywhere in the city?
Lady Rachael Robathan and her crew skimmed some nice profits from this waste of tax payers money.
It’s £17 to go in St Paul’s
The Walkie Talkie is free and has the best views in London.
@@The_Reality_Filter Mainly cos it's the only place in London you can't see the Walkie Talkie from
@@goonerbeagunner4life I know it's fashionable to slag off the Emirates Dangleway, but it has better views than the Walkie Talkie and you can use an Oyster card on it.
Conservatives: Labour councils waste money, the tories are the party of fiscal responsibility.
(Tory) Westminster City Council: hold my brandy.
Maybe it's a Boris notion? Garden bridges?
This reminds me of one of those Christmas "Winter Wonderland" attractions where the car park turns into a re-enactment of the Somme, the reindeer are starving and one of them is only walking on 3 legs, Santa's helpers are stood around smoking ciggies and Santa himself smells awfully like strong cider. Whoever signed off this project needs to be held to account.
Pushing "whoveer signed this project off" down the actual scaffolding hill wouldn't hurt them much unfortunately.
PERFECT !
The idea is understandable for a good cause BUT, there are 2 issues here: it cost Millions for something looks like that 😳 and the design itself is not awakening. With £ 2 Millions they can build higher, bigger, and denser trees/plants. And I’m annoyed with the statement "Let's give nature a chance", I mean obviously there are trees/plants that you can buy with its high/age preferences and with that much amount of money sure they can buy a lot more trees/plants to fill in that bald hill. SMH.
@@fraiaretara4718 I’m all for nature but that ugly dead mound of dirt with the most generic rails and disgusting white board on the back, they could have built a smaller hill with better looking vegetation and flowers, maybe had some architecture in there as well for only 100k
They gathered a whole bunch of dirt, piled it up and are charging people money to come and see it. Genius.
Would be if it didn't cost £2mil
Given the geometric angles, I question whether that’s a load of dirt under there.
It’s hollow scaffolding covered in astroturf.
No dirt used to make that thing.
If they had used dirt, real grass the trees wouldn't need to be in square sink holes/planters & it might actually have resembled a hill rather than this angular catastrophe.
If its grass and trees you want, then Hyde Park is across the road.
Yeah or Greenwich park or Hanstead Heath for beautiful hills.
👍👍👍👍👍
And Richmond park 👍
It's a glorified scaffolding. London's just a god damn theme park at this point.
No, Venice is a theme park. London still has many working class areas.
@@EliStettner A lot of EU people think that the class system in UK is not so working any longer....
@@EliStettner that's just the part of venice tourists vist
This looks even worse when you learn that Westminster Borough stopped the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street but are now trying this to get more people to visit it.
You hit the nail on the head - simply pedestrianising Oxford street would be far more beneficial to the local economy than this shit hill. And it wouldn't cost £2 million either...
@@additional09 I suspect it would cost a lot more. But the benefits would be huge and longer lasting.
@@adrianincroydon71 the cheapest way would be just blocking the entrance of the street.
@@PeterAuto1 and then you go ahead and put down some benches where the cafes are. Slowly or not at all filling in the gap between the pavement and road, put up better blockage, because the first one failed, and then call it a day.
@@PeterAuto1 I was thinking more of the restructuring that would be needed in nearby streets to accommodate the traffic no longer allowed in Oxford Street. This would also include a lot of new signposting.
I'm very much in favour but I know that it would be a major undertaking.
It's both ugly and hard to believe some, or a lot, of the money hasn't been pocketed and only a token effort made to produce an attraction given the resulting mound.
You don't need anyone acting devious in the AEC industry for this to happen. There are always too many cooks in the kitchen and none of them communicate with each other to cover their arse. The contractor then underbids on the unfinished design to get the job, only to find that nothing make sense, jacks up the price, clients freak out, designers work in overdrive, designed VE-ed to oblivion, materials wasted, no one gets paid and everybody suffers.
I am not saying no one pockets anything, but the reality in most cases are even more stupid and infuriating!
Hence the cheap plastic fence.
They should have spent the money on making the shopping streets more pleasant by removing through traffic, stopping pollution, planting trees, vegetation and generally turning the high streets into places you want to spend time on.
Wow. They have spend time in Brussels out of all Cities to do just this after a bad incident years back. It worked out very well. (I am from Sweden). Brussels did something remarkable good here i must say.... Long wide shopping streets with places to sit outside and big flower plants to stop terror deeds. They turned their biggest streets into pedestrians heavens and probably earned a lot from it. More bars in the streets and more people visiting shops. But they skipped still born project like "scaffold dirt piles" in the parks....
Every time people make a proposal like that the comeback is “but will someone think of the poor cars “.
@@sideduck6501 Didn't they get the pedestrianisation idea from Copenhagen? Other cities like Antwerp and Liverpool have done it too. Westminster Council, on the other hand, despite their £2m worth of desperation to bring back shoppers, actually considered and then rejected the idea and went for the fake hill instead. Tories.
@@JohnMoseley "Tories means Brexit!" Any questions? But i get your point. A good idea is good if executed well....
@@sideduck6501 The point is the Tory Westminster Council rejected this good idea. Pedestrianised areas are great for business, and the Tories pride themselves on being the party of business, but their fanaticism about drivers' rights beat this here. Brexit's similar: fulfils some deep idiot need among a lot of Tories, but terrible for business. Doh.
They wanted to cover up the arch with the hill.
Covering the beautiful and meaningful with the disgusting and pointless. A dying society.
You can say the "mound/hill" trying to cover up the arch is a euphemism for the current UK govt. Eh?
Here in the US, our vanity, money pit projects are generally Middle Eastern wars. No working class kids were sent off to die in some impoverished, bombed out country for the mound. If not wars, here in the US, our only other public spending projects involve giving tax breaks to billionaires. And there, you also have the advantage, as your royals are at least entertaining
Paying a fee to walk up a hill is just whack.
We could use the same money to build a huge fun-fare ride that bobs you up at a huge speed so you can see the city and then bobs you back down for the scare and the thrill. I know I would pay to go on that.
aren't even allowed on the hill have to walk on metal steps
@@jorgepeterbarton the hill is just scaffolding anyways
Shall we use this money to help people who are hungry, homeless or sick? Nah, let's build a pointless eyesore. Maybe if they lowered the rents, then the empty shops may be taken up.
Ha, that'll never happen, rents must always go up.
Lower business rates then. However every village, town and city in the UK has empty shops and businesses.
I'm not entirely sure if it's the same in London as it is in the US, but generally speaking, most commercial properties are valued by their rent. That means that if you've mortgaged them, then there's a minimum rent clause in the loan contract. Lower the rent, and the bank will immediately call in a portion of your loan, because you've literally devalued the collateral property.
If you just hold onto the property without renting it, however, banks will give you extremely favorable forbearance. You pay like 10% of your normal payment with the rest being added to the end of the loan. So there's *very clear* incentives for landlords to hold overvalued properties until the market catches up rather than chasing the current prevailing rent.
@@SuperSmashDolls Well that explains a lot, I’ve been watching Louis Rossman’s channel, he lives in NY.
The rent for stores is completely off the chart, tens of thousands to rent a tiny tatty store that has been closed for years.
I thought it was some sort of money laundering scam.
In Edinburgh you can walk up a much bigger hill in the middle of the city, for free.
And with 360 degree view..love Arthur's Seat.
Mate, walking to the shop for milk in Edinburgh involves walking up hill. And somehow, so does walking back.
One of my top 5 cities in the world!
in Radstock you can walk up a slag head and its better than the Marble Arch Mound
Arthur's Seat and Carlton Hill each give some of the best views of any city anywhere.
@@michaelball93 kept thinking carlton hill was parliment hill..
As someone who works in events... That is standard scaffolding with grass rolled over it. Nothing more.
I mean...I've never been to London but isn't the Marble Arch and Hyde Park its own attractions especially for tourists?
Excactly, London doesn’t need more modern attractions, people come for the older attractions
I wonder what the rent costs are of a shop on Oxford Street. Maybe they are a bit too high for shops to make a meaningful profit in central London nowadays?
Rent costs are astronomical all over the country it's definitely not helping
@@ZachBobBob and don't forget the horrendous business rates there. Only the elite can afford to run businesses at a loss, people like Lady Rachael Robathan and her crew.
If one absolutely had to have a monument to Brexit I suppose this would be appropriate. It actually makes the Boris Garden Bridge look like a “good idea”; I understand that No 10 proposes to construct a Boris Garden Bridge between GB and Northern Ireland with a customs post and novelty lorry park in the middle as a Brexit Celebratory Monument.
@@The_Reality_Filter Rates are based on outdated market rental values
It's the landlords sitting back taking all the money that have the last laugh and the least work.
Follow the money, someone's getting a payout from this.
Lady Rachael Robathan and her crew skimmed some nice profits from this waste of tax payers money.
Looks like someone new to the business has given it a go: Gimme that sweet 2 million, how hard can it be?
I bet it's a tory......or two
Why would tourists pay to see a hill just to have a 2 minute walk around it? The council is loosing the plot just like the government.
South Korea with an entire natural mountain in the middle of the capital: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
Scotland would like to join the group with Edinburgh. Beautiful mountain.
@UCD0SRX-PgOzRPR_Tad3D1aw What does a city's population have to do with whether there's a big hill in the centre of it?
As a person who has traveled to see the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota I have to say that I really want to visit this in person. It looks absolutely hilarious
Edit: I only realised after that this mound is only going to be there for 5 months... what? £2Mill for a structure that will be demolished after just 20 weeks? That is almost £15,000 per day?! And it's closed now while we wait for the grass to grow, cause you are not getting large trees or bushes in half a year, most of which will be in autumn and winter... I have no words
OG: To let "nature take its course" in bringing this man-made polygon into a lush hill will take years, decades probably... If it even stands that long. I think it would be far more sensible to spend this money on temporary art installations that change every 3-6 months, ensuring people from outside the borough have a reason to keep coming back frequently for years to come. As I'm not sure there are that many people who will come just to watch the grass grow.
‘They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum’. Comes to mind. You couldn’t possibly make this up.
You can say the "mound/hill" trying to cover up the arch is a euphemism for the current UK govt. Eh?
You mean, ugly, inept, a disgrace to the past, and a cringe for the future?
They should had made it more scenic like Meiji Jinja grounds.
Maybe a recreation of a hill during paleolithic times.
@@shaneshackleford6960 The future is all cringe .
@@kgd9725 Yeah, like the kid doing a walk to a highlight climate change petition to raise taxes by 10%, I’m going to get my crystal ball out and say this will be one of the few petitions that work.
He will get a good kicking in 15 years time.
@@kgd9725 At least this specific "future" caters a big void inside. Not sure this was tax money well spent......
This is just the council tea bagging all you innocent tax payers. Someone made a lot of £££ out of this.
People at Westminster Council ought to lose their jobs over this NONSENSE 🙄😒
Sounds like someone on the council has a friend in the construction business and wanted to give them a bunch of money.
This. There doesn't seem to be any more plausible explanation.
I think you are right there.
I often cycle around Marble Arch as it's down the road from where I live. While it was being constructed I couldn't figure out what it was. I cycled past it a couple of days ago and still could figure out what it was for. I didn't know that at the time it had actually been completed. Fair to say it could used a bit more constructing.
Same, I couldn't figure out what the thing was supposed to be. Some sort of space for a future concert or show or something. Nope
Hm. If the invested tax money already is pocked elsewhere, how should this be finished? It look extremely lame for people with a passport. But maybe the target audience is poor people in UK with no blu passport. Maybe this will baffle them, but will they have the money to shop in the area?
its an artificial building site thing
It isn't THAT bad.
You're just making a mountain out of a molehill...
😂 i quite like it, few flowers and a new fence it'll be fine
@@ImMamba This seems like the most unpolishable of turds!
By the way... I see from your videos you play osrs! Small world...
I only just got back into it with all the free time I now have.
@@wordonparliamentstreet6076 very small world! I don't play much anymore tbh. I can give you a couple mill if you are just getting back into it if you want 🤠
I can see how it could be an extremely large mole hill but it’s a tiny mountain.
Bravo
They should have got an event on in the park. Perhaps a summer fete or something like Winter Wonderland but for the summer. That way it probably would have made money and brought people in to the area.
Not sure that's a good idea right now, with new Covid cases still being fairly high in the UK (even if they are going down).
Nah, they'd have been better off not spending the money at all- Westminster is an incredibly well-off area. The majority of shops will either survive or be replaced with even more expensive shops, and will rapidly start making money again.
The reality is, they never needed to do this or anything like it. It was an utter vanity project dreamt up by a bunch of posh tory councillors to spend taxpayers money on something that was of no benefit to anyone but themselves.
And the wonderful thing is there will be absolutely no repercussions for any of them.
The actual hill looks more like a digital rendering than the digital renderings do.
That Roller Coaster Tycoon reference at 3:24 had me in bits. That's exactly what it reminded me of. XD Hahahaha
But seriously, is this the hill you want to die on? XD
£2mPoundMound 🤪
Imagine thinking that you need to add a natural attraction to bring in shoppers, at the corner of Hyde PARK...
Honestly this is the most London thing I've ever seen.
How about some really nice socially distant public bathrooms instead?
For £2m we could all..P. Freely.
Very funny
Great idea.
Imagine working full time and paying taxes for 40+ years and the government does this with your money
Less government, less tax.
It’s what the Tories are supposed to run on.
Looks like I’m voting loonies next time.
@@lesserspottedmugwump.363 Well, Labour is governing in London isn't it
@@HelloThere-pb3cp did the westminister council did or the council of London, because if it's the former then it's Tories.
Someone's mate at the council definitely makes fake hills
Lady Rachael Robathan
Nail on the head there Rob.
London is a joke for cyclists, we rank 62 on the “Global Bicycle Cities Index”, but yet we spend 2M on decoration next to a shopping street. 🤦♂️
Is that the one being referred to as “Among those dark Satanic mills” in the Jerusalem Hymn?
The budget was probably embezzled,
& only 60% was spent on construction.
20% more like, the rest back handers, this "Mountain" is hideous.
This is literally like something out of Terry Pratchett: one of 'Bloody Stupid' Johnson's ideas was a big mound of dirt, in that case designed to block the view of a forest.
I would'nt be surprised if Bojo knew nothing about it. I don't think he knows much of what is going on anywhere.
This looks like something put to cover up a raised foundation as an afterthought. In fact multiple buildings at my university look exactly like that. Pretty sure they didn´t spend 2 million on that.
They spent 2 million on the project, they never specified that they spent it on construction haha
Speaking as someone with a great deal of interest in urban design/planning, we need cities to become greener; it makes for more pleasant, walkable urban environments; improves happiness; improves air quality; helps sequester co2; reduces the urban heat-island effect; and can form an important part of flood management strategies. This just seems like bad design though, I hope this failure doesn't put off planners from approving better projects aimed at achieving the same thing
Lets hope for better projects in the future! This terrible Astro Turf Bonanza did not tick the right boxes i presume....
It was already in a park. If you want an example of a fake hill done right look a Barangaroo in Sydney.
@@francesconicoletti2547 Why compare intelligent Australians with Brexit/Brits?
@@sideduck6501 we don’t do everything right. If you want an example of a corrupt planning decision check out Sydney Crown Casino , build on land originally earmarked for Barangarro public space.
Hills have more surface area than the flat surface below them - so more green on a smaller spot
The developers must be from the P T Barnum School: There's a sucker born every minute.
Why don't they temporarily lend some of the shops to up and coming artists and designers. A great way to fill empty shops, give people a reason to visit the area and give a new generation a chance to be recognised by their respective fields. If they are successful some of them might turn a loaned shop into a viable business that can afford to rent the shop.
Either way, the landlords in the area are going to have to lower rents if they ever want to see those shops filled again.
Landlords wanting too much is the reason why up and down the country shops are just empty, they'd rather make nothing rather than to let it cheaper
Terrible planning and to be honest, terrible result. Shows a brutal disconnect between the council and their citizens. Will be interested to see if it collapses in on itself (the mound not the council ;) )
Both are good 😂
I can see it turning into something more like the renders when the plants have had a chance to grow out, might turn out alright imo.
That said I'm not convinced it's the best possible use of public money, especially right now :/
At that stage it'll just look like abandoned scaffolding.
@@Munkenba If nobody maintains it that sounds plausible.
It's currently only supposed to be there until the end of the year. Don't know if that's enough time for the plants to really flourish.
@@Lazzars oh.. yeah no if they built that as a temporary thing and expected fully-grown trees that's a new level of dumb.
Honestly that's a bit of a shame, this is the kind of thing that I imagine given a few years would start to look much better. Give the thing some time to weather and the gardeners enough time to do their magic. I mean it's supposed to be an overgrown hill. It uhh needs to over grow, the hill, duh.
An art installation to boost the local economy is a good concept but how on earth did they spend £2million?
My home is surrounded by the real thing, makes you appreciate the view even more.
“Not great”, classic British understatement. 😂
This feels like an awful idea, and yet it's so shit that it might get loads of people there to witness the shitness first-hand.
Should call it Boris' Brexit World Leading Attraction.
They should probably have a go at building it back better.
@@Munkenba Need immigrants to get anything done it seems though :)
@@bikerslow2598 That's a great idea, let's call the immigrants! I imagine they haven't gone anywhere since we last saw them right?
Great video!
Usually if you plan a project that involves plants you:
a) plant already grown plants, that can adapt
b) factor the growing time into the plan. And as the biggest factor by far.
They have done neither.
It’s fine! You’ve just got to wait a moment for it to render properly and the rest of the trees to pop in. It’s really your fault for trying to play hide park on such an under powered system. I bet if you upgraded the graphics card to a RTX 3090 I bet you could run this attraction on full graphics settings with zero issues :p
We don't live in an economy, we live in a society. The money should have gone to housing the homeless, feeding the hungry; not trying to get people to add to millionaires personal wealth
Lady Rachael Robathan and her crew skimmed some nice profits from this waste of tax payers money.
Did they not think of spending 1/4 of the cost on helping keep local/small business afloat, 1/4 on startups, and then 1/2 that on an attraction people could actually interact with..crazy bad idea, execution and a total slap in the face to anyone actually struggling in the uk today.
Wow - Regent Street is looking so sad. Same thing is happening here in Nottingham city centre. This mound is totally horrendous. I can just imagine a W1A style sketch taking the piss out of the planning meetings. The problem with big projects like this is that so many people put their reputations on the line to get it done that they can never dare to admit they made a catastrophic error.
I don't have a strong opinion on the hill, but the idea of putting tacky lights up on a beautiful historic monument? Yikes. No way.
The Eiffel Tower was hated in its first years.
Who knows what this hill will become ? Maybe it will be the symbol of England in the next century lol
The problem with that is that this is only a very temporary installation until the end of the Year - which doesn't give the mound much time to 'bed in' anyway. The Eiffel Tower comparison is better made with the London Eye which also had some detractors when first proposed but everyone seems to have got over that now.
I don't know about symbolising things for years to come but it sure says a lot about the hear and now, we build a hill wile Japan built a giant moving gundam it has shops filled with homegrown products and culture wile England has nothing ,a boring hill for a boring country
Why do they have a monument to Starro the Conqueror in London? I didn't know that comic book villains were London's heroes.
As to the mound, the growth of trees and bushes should make it less ugly.
Suicide Squad promo
The polygonal geometric angles of the mound remind me of my landscaping attempts in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2n😅
I love that this video is the most opinion and bais I have seen from TLDR which is great 😂
This will also do further damage to council's environmental efforts as surely 'that' type of the electorate will see this as "yet another green garbage project" being swept up with all the anti LTN rhetoric etc when in reality, I can't see how any serious environmental consultant or scientist could have possibly backed this project from an ecological perspective.
Tory councillors and their mates pushing garbage projects to give easy profits to some donor associated company.
Indeed, I imagine the little hill will require a lot of watering to keep it green.
If only I hadn't bought a coffee every day, then I'd be able to afford my very own pointless, useless, eyesore of an artificial hill covered in fencing and scaffolding.
I hate that our money is wasted on things like this!!
Some nice 'Brutalist' 'nature architecture' there. Sad thing is (and maybe it's because I'm in New Zealand) I kinda wanna go there.
"The offending Mario64 level" 😂
I'd say that the idea of bringing people into the area could've been realized with far less money spent.
Why didn''t they get a carnival?? Ferris wheels, Tilt-a-whirls, roller coasters, fun houses, etc.
You can't get that online.
It would attract families.
AND, it would be a LOT cheaper.
It's as horrible, but I would visit it just for the meme. Maybe even buy a ticket. If people visit it just to laugh at it, I guess it's not a complete failure.
Imagine if that was the plan the whole time, market it as great and make it shit so they get tonnes of ironic tourists
The idea is not bad but the execution on the other hand is terrible😂
Nah, its bad all around.
Paying to walk up a hill is like something out of father ted
I'm just so confused that this came out of Westminster council. They are notorious for rejecting ideas that every other borough thought would be a no brainer like the cycle superhighways or, as you mentioned... Fire resistant cladding. Usually their justification is that it will ruin the aesthetic of the area. Yet, here we find ourselves...
Are you sure you're not thinking of RBKC? They were responsible for Grenfell and the lack of cycle superhighways.
@@Jablicek possibly 👍
No one likes this except the person who designed it
Oh, I'm sure the firms that got a big fat check to pile up a bit of dirt and plant some shrubbery loved it too!
Considering how much of a reaction it is causing it might just prove successful. If it was decent for example, we wouldn't be talking about it in the press and social media, no TLDR video due to that. Perhaps it could prove to be an urban planning dark horse. Furthermore, if it does improve then that will surely garner a second wave of interest.
yer, because they wanted people to talk about it? or to gain revenue?
I thought they were doing refurbishment work on the Marble Arch and had covered it like that to sort of match the greenery of Hyde Park 😂😂
Clearly a better idea would be just to offer 'free tennancy for 4months' to anyone wanting to open a previously unocupied store in the borough.
Even if it did look like the renders, I would probably not pay to get on top of it
Somehow the tories will blame this on khan despite Westminster being a conservative council
Is a great example of how populism can get you feeling excited. But what you need is someone to lead you in a desperate time.. it's a clear example of how being in a union with your closest allies Can protect you from home grown nightmares.
How FFS did this cost £2M? Seems more like a big dump of sand, plant some grass on top, reinforce it and install staircases.
Just another example of wasting massive amounts of money on modern "art".
Local councils seem to have a tendency to spend public money on stupid, physical shit. My local council bought a metal sculpture of a garden gnome. Maybe it's an ego thing: councillors imagine it as their legacy.
This is very common problem recently. 3D rendering looking better than the reality. 😂
In Paris there's a park built into an old quarry. It's incredible. When I heard about this project I really hoped it was something similar... but it's just a hollow box with some grass on it that probably can't even support roots for trees to grow.
someone should dress up as It's 'a' me Mario and chase down Bowser on that N64 Hill!!
*while I was walking to the offending mario level*
That was Gold 🤣💯💯
Oh my goodness, thank you so much for posting this. I was howling with laughter when the memes popped up LMAOOOOO!!
With regards to the mound. . . . . . . . . what an awful waste of money.
Think this has taken all the customers from London eye now 🤪😂
Using the space for free music concerts, performance art, street performers, theatre would have been far better.
This can be turned around if they wanted. Put some Minecraft statues, buildings and creeper bushes and boom! Instant tourist trap!
you think it was a bad idea, but now everyone is flocking to the area to check out how bad it actually is, hence boosting the spending in the area and actually fulfilling the goal of the project.
It was reverse psychology on behalf of the council. Genius.
at least that's what i choose to believe...
Need a pint in the local to steady the nerves afterwards...yes guineus.
After years of closing music venues now they wonder where everybody went and how to get them back..
OK, so that's not the only reason but it's a contributing reason.