Construction industry gossip: Mipim musings and those KPF towers in Acton

By Hansom2020-03-06T06:00:00

Gossip on a no show from Lord Adonis, the future of handshakes and a two-floor cheese barge on Regent’s Canal

Beyond words

Planning officers at Ealing council certainly know how to coin a phrase. Telling councillors to go out and approve KPF’s plan for two enormous towers in the London suburbs by the A40 at Acton, they did admit: “The presence and prominence of the scheme needs to be acknowledged together with the harshness of the immediate surrounds.” This seems to be saying the place is so godawful, anything, even a 55-storey tower, couldn’t make it any uglier.

Bears repeating

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