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What a sickening collection of euphemisms in play here : “client unrest” translates to unpaid architects fees! NRAP is an interesting moniker for an outfit working for an essentially Islamic client : it could be straight outa’ Compton? N*****RAP!!!!!! As for the scheme : hopefully it will never see the light of day. Such a huge building for what should be a quiet understatement of an immigrant belief system that is respectful towards the host culture/society beggars belief? Then we have the hoary old chestnut : “consultation with the local community” AKA the minority who want to build the thing!
Long term it is better to adopt a low profile by dissipating a number of smaller centres over a much greater area : less antagonistic and much more effective socially, and respectful of the true (ie genuine!) function of such a centre. The only thing that such mega -symbolism does is attract the fanatical rather than the rational. It is to be hoped that Newham can keep a lid on things : might improve the embarassingly naive concept design to start with!!??