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Kind of late to try saving Holborn Circus now, is it not? That once-densely urban space was firstly wrecked by bombing, then by Foster's with that horrible Sainsbury's HQ building that demonstrates that practice's complete inability to design in response to context, and more recently by the shameful destruction of a very fine office building that used to stand on the site now occupied by Rolfe Judd's vulgar, characterless 40 Holborn Viaduct.

So what, exactly, is the VicSoc proposing to retain? Might as well move that statue out of the way (although it does provide a welcome refuge for cyclists as they negotiate one of the most dangerous road junctions in London).