The Crystal Palace Partnership's artist's impression of the new park development depicts existing stonework to good advantage, together with walks and trees -- but I am not faulting the park. It is the "palace" to which I take exception, and it is the "palace" which fades
(literally) into insignificance in the misty drawing.
The building can still be mistaken for an airport building, a giant ice cream wafer or an alien spacecraft. No entrance is visible, weird lighting exudes from beneath the flat roof, and one expects at any moment for it to rise rapidly and disappear. Now that's an idea! David Alston
South Hill Road
Shortlands
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