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A great case of gross over development - it's disgusting!

There has been an obvious failure on the part of the previous moron mayor (hardly surprising), the local authority and the master planners (Viñoly) who signed this off, thinking this was necessary or appropriate.

In fact, I loathe this “architect” and his knack for leaving architectural effluence all over this fine city.

I must admit if I saw him in the street, it would take considerable self-control not to give the man a sharp slap across his dozy face for 20 Fenchurch Street and now defiling one of my favourite buildings in this way.

Architecture is supposed to move people, but I don’t think retching like a cat bringing up a fur ball is what was meant - perhaps someone should point this out to Raffy?

As for the architecture such that it is, a series of floor plates encased in a glass box - wow!

How imaginative is that is?

You would think it might at least show a little consideration to context with Gilbert Scots masterpiece with some use of brickwork perhaps - but they couldn't even be bothered with that.

Just mind numbing, witless glass screening – pathetic.

A fine illustration of everything wrong with London’s increasingly tacky Dubai by the Thames “aspiration” - the utterly fucked up state of housing in this city and all over the UK, presided over by useless politicians (too busy wringing their hands in public to do anything meaningful about it) and facilitated by clueless architects like Viñoly dumping their crap all over London like an incontinent seagull.