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Adam,

Before the industrial revolution we had plenty of space, we could all live in cites if we wanted too (even though they were not very pleasant then). Strata cannot be compared with long ago, it's concieved in a different age. We have to go tall near city centres to be green and reduce travel based CO2, the only building for that site must have been a tall one. So once again its a question of aesthetics.

I must however disagree with Strata damaging the public realm. Please do go and look at the public realm around Strata. The context of E+C is Draper House, Hannibal House, the old Castle House Strata replaced etc. The context and public realm is vastly improved with Strata.

What seems to offend people, for some reason, is the views from afar, but as I said earlier these were all considered and its a question of personal taste.

What I will say is to agree with JA that the judges have been gratuitously vindictive. Strata was proposed by the Georgian Group, quite why I don't know, there is no Georgian context? The 4 self proclaimed judges Christopher Woodward, Owen Hatherley, Amanda Baillieu and Ellis Woodman then seemed to undertaken a personal vendetta against Strata. So what we have is a small group of reporters angling for a sensational story, backed up by little substance. It all seems very personal and one sided.

Well they havent changed my view, I guess yours was established long ago, vareity is the spice of life...!