Why This City Is Filling Up with Towers of Piffle ; the Mayor Should Apply the Same Rigorous Standards to High-Rises That He Is Employing On His Olympic Landmark

Evening Standard - London › October 27, 2009

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MAYORS and towers go together like Richard and Judy, or The X Factor's excruciating twins, John and Edward. They are mutually reinforcing, each one helping the other to look and feel good.

Towers need the oomph of mayoral support to get them though planning, while mayors get to look like men of action if big sticks of building start appearing across the city, even if only in computer-generated form.

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Why This City Is Filling Up with Towers of Piffle ; the Mayor Should Apply the Same Rigorous Standards to High-Rises That He Is Employing On His Olympic Landmark

Boris is no exception, and three weeks ago he wielded his borough- crushing powers to push through the 240-metre Columbus Tower by Canary Wharf against the wishes of Tower Hamlets. Now plans for a so- called "Piffle Tower" have leaked out, a potential monument for the 2012 Olympics th...

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