The Portsmouth Society - News
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| Earlier news | From 'News and Gossip' Tom Dyckhoff, Twentieth Century Society Newsletter Winter 2004/5: "The Possibly Saved From the Abyss Spot: With the Tricorn (yes, by God, I WILL mention it in every issue) suffering death by a thousand JCB nibbles, some sager building owners have been promoting the idea that you might revive rather than viciously flatten 20th century buildings. Denys Lasdun's ziggurat student flats at the University of East Anglia are to be polished up. " "The lovely Rotunda in Birmingham is being turned, what else, into luxury flats for metrosexuals. And one Glasgow architect, MCM Architects, have the novel idea of dressing a hideous old crone - in this case a 1960s car park - in a new set of clothes - in this case a slinkly little number in larch louvers, magicking the minging mutton into contemporary chic lamb. " "PS All those, like me, still moaning on about the Tricorn might like to know that the doughty troopers of the Portsmouth Society are planning a concrete Tricorn monument for the local park, said to consist of the local Tricorn opponent MP Mike Hancock in the pose of Saint Sebastian (plum job of first archer to be auctioned for charity)." Note from Celia Clark: This is not QUITE right, though lovers of/in the Tricorn are still very angry when they see that pile of hardcore. With Mark Lewis of Art in the Park, we decided, rather, to persuade developers Centros Miller to commission a suitable memorial on the site, as part of their redevelopment. |