A fitting tribute?

2011-01-14T00:00:00

Liam O’Connor’s design for the Bomber Command memorial

The design of the £5 million memorial to Bomber Command with its irrelevant and inappropriate 85m-long classical colonnade, more suited to Berlin in the thirties, along the South side of Piccadilly, was granted planning permission against the recommendations of the City of Westminster’s own planning officers.

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