This month’s construction industry gossip: Sparks fly

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2026-03-13T07:00:00

The latest chatter around the industry

Straight talking

Has anyone seen Thomas Heatherwick’s nearly-completed redevelopment of Olympia? John McAslan has, and it’s fair to say he didn’t like what he saw. “It’s horrible,” the King’s Cross station architect told my scribe a couple of weeks ago. Nothing like sitting on the fence. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that. I’m a big fan of the Walkie Talkie and, to quote McAslan, a lot of people think it’s horrble as well.

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