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Mark - a Haywood supporter!
Given that some of the South Bank will be sacrificed I hope the Hayward can be saved, with the Festival Hall (not under threat), to provide stop ends to any new scheme. The QE hall is not too successful externally in my view (no, I don't work for CABE), and it came after the Hayward. I will put aside the political considerations that it was designed in that hotbed of social aspirations that was the world renowned GLC Architects Department.

Grimshaws Eurostar terminal is brilliant - but is sitting there unused and grimy because the train operating companies cannot be arsed to bring the platforms into use to relieve pressure on the other platforms (keep shovelling those commuters in). The terminal is also in the wrong place at the wrong time because developers are drooling at the development potential of the site and guess what - they will win the day.