Charles Saumarez Smith on Architecture
Sep 30, 2021
3 minutes
THE BIGGEST EVENT of the architectural summer was not the construction of the ludicrous earth mound nearly on top of the historic Marble Arch as a way of attracting customers back to Oxford Street, but the appearance of the new highest skyscraper in the City, 22 Bishopsgate (it has not yet acquired a nickname), which both dominates its surroundings and, in a very curious way, disappears from view, a building of profoundly emphatic characterlessness.
How, one wonders, have we allowed such a featureless monolith to dominate all views of
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