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While this debate might expose some awkward truths about the state of British architecture, I am happy to be a practicing architect in a country where such a wide range of approaches are accomodated within its building culture. In a sense its a democratic culture, where no stance is suppressed.

What is highly undemocratic about the project in question however is the relentless way it imposes its stance on an unsuspecting public.

The wiff of the dictator also presents itself in the way the individual lives of its occupants are made invisible, and subsumed within an all encompassing whole by the vertical stripes and crown of redundent turbines, making an image that is more familiar to product design than to an architecture genuinely concerned for the city.

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