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There should be a gallow built on the shore at the front of the ship. On the gallow should be hung the names of all the individuals associated with this debacle. At the top should be those in charge of the trust, and those in the architectural offices who had a hand in it. These people should be accountable for what they've done.

The design is so bad that even the Queen, who's had a lifetime's practise of holding back her feelings in public, upon her visit couldn't help but reveal a grimace at what she was seeing on her tour.

The abundance of people attacking the journalism in their comments is just distraction from the main issue. It's not about journalism, it's about the terrible renovation that we're now stuck with. If you don't agree, tell us why by addressing the issues of what the builders have actually done - and leave the journalists out, it's nothing to do with them.

I'm a bit miffed at the Orbit getting away scott-free. This was an equally dire construction at all levels, starting right at the top with Boris Johnson (questionable whether BD politics had a hand in this entry not winning in order to protect his name) all the way through to the funding which allowed for advertising to circumnavigate olympic rules about this, to the coincidental fact the winning design was by a friend of the funder to the way its corporate vibe hijacked the olympic spirit whilst hideously promoted by a crazed grinning Boris. The fact the design itself was atrocious was the final insult.

The Orbit deserved at least to be joint winner. Maybe the fact its in a poor part of East London doesn't matter so much to the increasingly right-wing BD as much as the precious colonial-era Cutty Sark?

A joint winner would have been the more truthful result and reflected a broader understanding of the architectural issues affecting the wider populace of modern multicultural Britain, not just it's more narrow traditional past.