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Post by woodstein on Aug 4, 2021 21:10:56 GMT
Its not my idea of a nice big mound! 😁
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Post by erogenous on Aug 4, 2021 22:03:38 GMT
Is Marble Arch really that much of a tourist attraction? One of those places have driven past and not really bothered to pay much if any attention to. Is like a rubbish Arc de Triomphe This... Unless I'm thinking of somewhere else isn't marble arch an average high white thing by a set of lights on a pretty non descript London roundabout. Did it need to be viewed better and at a cost of 2 million quid! This advertisers what was wrong with London pre pandanemic not encouraging tourism.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2021 22:15:59 GMT
Is Marble Arch really that much of a tourist attraction? One of those places have driven past and not really bothered to pay much if any attention to. Is like a rubbish Arc de Triomphe This... Unless I'm thinking of somewhere else isn't marble arch an average high white thing by a set of lights on a pretty non descript London roundabout. Did it need to be viewed better and at a cost of 2 million quid! This advertisers what was wrong with London pre pandanemic not encouraging tourism. I always took the Edgware Rd into London and just remember it off there somewhere. To be honest am not one for landmarks and sightseeing. Am a bit of a...oh look there's Niagra Falls or Sydney Opera House person. Not sure why you would need a viewing area for Marble Arch.
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Post by partickpotter on Aug 5, 2021 5:54:24 GMT
I have some sympathy for the people behind this. They are trying something new to bring people back into the city. I suspect the artist impressions looked amazing. It looks like the execution has not lived up to expectations… at least at this moment. I’m a great believer in art installations They can be amazing; big scale things like the Kelpies to more modest, but no less awesome, efforts like the Charles Rennie Macintosh statue next door to my flat in Glasgow. It’s easy to get into Daily Mail mode when things go wrong, but we need to cut a little slack as teething problems get sorted or we get used to the actual installation. Even when things turn out bad, we have to accept that not everything works. Not quite sure what "getting into the Daily Mail mode" means, I was genuinely asking what the thought process behind it was as it currently looks like an absolute dogs dinner, if it's just for the overview of the city isn't that what the London Eye is for? Whilst I accept that things don't always work out, partly blocking the iconic Marble Arch just makes no sense whatsoever.......... Daily Mail mode means using hyperbole. Words like “absolute eyesore”, “kick up the arse”. That sort of thing.
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Post by prestwichpotter on Aug 5, 2021 6:16:09 GMT
Not quite sure what "getting into the Daily Mail mode" means, I was genuinely asking what the thought process behind it was as it currently looks like an absolute dogs dinner, if it's just for the overview of the city isn't that what the London Eye is for? Whilst I accept that things don't always work out, partly blocking the iconic Marble Arch just makes no sense whatsoever.......... Daily Mail mode means using hyperbole. Words like “absolute eyesore”, “kick up the arse”. That sort of thing. New one on me is that……
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Post by partickpotter on Aug 5, 2021 7:15:41 GMT
Daily Mail mode means using hyperbole. Words like “absolute eyesore”, “kick up the arse”. That sort of thing. New one on me is that…… Glad to be of service.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Aug 5, 2021 12:24:27 GMT
You need something to mark the start/end of the A5.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2021 13:00:02 GMT
You need something to mark the start/end of the A5. i suggest something like this but designed by someone with a double barrelled name at the cost of several million
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Post by PotteringThrough on Aug 5, 2021 20:27:57 GMT
Must be one of the few locations in London that doesn't have a Starbucks It’s on the other side of the mound.
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Post by Billy the kid on Aug 7, 2021 7:28:44 GMT
Must be one of the few locations in London that doesn't have a Starbucks It’s on the other side of the mound. With a sainsburys local next door no doubt.
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Post by murphthesurf on Aug 10, 2021 21:34:09 GMT
Is Marble Arch really that much of a tourist attraction? One of those places have driven past and not really bothered to pay much if any attention to. Is like a rubbish Arc de Triomphe Eh, watch it, Jeezy……. ( ) Marble Arch was never built as an arch in the same vein as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which was a 'Triumphal Arch' which Napoleon, being a right little control freak, had built and loved because it let him show off and made him feel taller - even though every time our lot met him in battle he didn't have much triumph. No - Marble Arch was originally built to simply be a sort-of front door, ie. the main entrance to the front of Buckingham Palace and was later carefully moved to its present location. Here's what Wiki says about it for you: Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure was designed by John Nash in 1827 to be the state entrance to the cour d'honneur of Buckingham Palace; it stood near the site of what is today the three-bayed, central projection of the palace containing the well-known balcony. In 1851, on the initiative of architect and urban planner Decimus Burton, a one-time pupil of John Nash, it was relocated to its current site. Following the widening of Park Lane in the early 1960s, the site became a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane and Edgware Road, isolating the arch. Admiralty Arch, Holyhead in Wales is a similar arch, also cut off from public access, at the other end of the A5.
Only members of the Royal Family and the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery are said to be permitted to pass through the arch; this happens in ceremonial processions.
The arch gives its name to the area surrounding it, particularly the southern portion of Edgware Road and also to the underground station. The arch is not part of the Royal Parks and is maintained by Westminster City Council.
Cour d'honneur: A cour d'honneur, lit. 'court of honor', is the principal and formal approach and forecourt of a large building. It is usually defined by two secondary wings projecting forward from the main central block (corps de logis), sometimes with a fourth side, consisting of a low wing or a railing. The Palace of Versailles and Blenheim Palace (plan) both feature such entrance courts.
There you are!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 8:55:02 GMT
Is Marble Arch really that much of a tourist attraction? One of those places have driven past and not really bothered to pay much if any attention to. Is like a rubbish Arc de Triomphe Eh, watch it, Jeezy……. ( ) Marble Arch was never built as an arch in the same vein as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which was a 'Triumphal Arch' which Napoleon, being a right little control freak, had built and loved because it let him show off and made him feel taller - even though every time our lot met him in battle he didn't have much triumph. No - Marble Arch was originally built to simply be a sort-of front door, ie. the main entrance to the front of Buckingham Palace and was later carefully moved to its present location. Here's what Wiki says about it for you: Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure was designed by John Nash in 1827 to be the state entrance to the cour d'honneur of Buckingham Palace; it stood near the site of what is today the three-bayed, central projection of the palace containing the well-known balcony. In 1851, on the initiative of architect and urban planner Decimus Burton, a one-time pupil of John Nash, it was relocated to its current site. Following the widening of Park Lane in the early 1960s, the site became a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane and Edgware Road, isolating the arch. Admiralty Arch, Holyhead in Wales is a similar arch, also cut off from public access, at the other end of the A5.
Only members of the Royal Family and the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery are said to be permitted to pass through the arch; this happens in ceremonial processions.
The arch gives its name to the area surrounding it, particularly the southern portion of Edgware Road and also to the underground station. The arch is not part of the Royal Parks and is maintained by Westminster City Council.
Cour d'honneur: A cour d'honneur, lit. 'court of honor', is the principal and formal approach and forecourt of a large building. It is usually defined by two secondary wings projecting forward from the main central block (corps de logis), sometimes with a fourth side, consisting of a low wing or a railing. The Palace of Versailles and Blenheim Palace (plan) both feature such entrance courts.
There you are! It's a posh front door? Why can't she just have one from B & Q with a doorbell that plays the National Anthem ? If only posh types etc are allowed through, how does the postman or the Amazon driver deliver her caviar etc and Andrew's Grange Hill DVD box sets?
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Post by Northy on Aug 11, 2021 16:52:28 GMT
I saw it the weekend before last when down in London, and having a run around Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, here's my picture of it, I wondered what it was but the wife advised me it's a mound, (haven't seen one for years) and I couldn't go up it 😉
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Post by prestwichpotter on Aug 13, 2021 10:01:42 GMT
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Post by Seymour Beaver on Aug 13, 2021 11:38:12 GMT
Yes I saw that - £3.3. to £6m. Yet I would have thought the land it stands on alone would be worth several times that.
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Aug 13, 2021 19:29:00 GMT
Why does it need to review to understand what went wrong? That'll probably be another waste of £millions.
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 14, 2021 11:02:24 GMT
A council constructed a mound That utterly failed to astound. Its deputy chief Has now come to grief For spaffing six million pound
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Jan 7, 2022 12:19:22 GMT
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