Complete waste of £80 million

[StriderX]

Well that is the point...

 

[TheVoice]

Looking at various photographs it looks like a clear case of design over function.

I hear the stuff inside is like that too. What a waste, I'm going to IKEA instead.

 

[ubersonic]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45524485

What a complete waste of money! Surely the money could have been spent on something needy for the UK. Something like, the homeless, cancer research, hospitals etc.

In fairness you could argue that about anything involving art/music/sport.

Hell if you stopped teaching them in schools you would save billions, would impact our culture negatively though.

Ignore "kool"pc as he's a known ***** for making crap up / talking nonsense.

And so you feel the requirement to flame him when he makes a decent thread on a topic worthy of discussion?

 

[McPhee]

Got to chuckle really. The OP makes this thread expecting everyone to join him in moral outrage; discovers the vast majority think it's great.

It's £80 million pounds. Not all of it is public money. Basically, a grain of sand in the Sahara. A relatively modest spend toward rejuvenating a rundown area.

There's genuine wastes of money that are actually worthy of ire. This isn't one of them.

 

[touch]

A huge building that manages to be smaller on the inside than the outside.

Yeah, what is it with architects these days complying with the laws of physics?!

 

[koolpc]

Got to chuckle really. The OP makes this thread expecting everyone to join him in moral outrage; discovers he's the only one that think this building is anything other than great.

Really? Why would I expect everyone to agree with me? I thought we all had free will?

 

[The_Abyss]

I thought we all had free will?

We do. Which is why we can choose to spend £80 million on this as well as schools, hospitals, homeless and curing cancer, ignoring those who think we shouldn't.

 

[McPhee]

Really? Why would I expect everyone to agree with me? I thought we all had free will?

You've lost me there. What has free will go to do with my post?

Or are you suggesting that you posted this up with no expectation of others opinions? In which case, why the emotive and coercive use of language? People don't tend to say "Look at this! Isn't it ridiculous?" without believing others will agree.

 

[Derek W]

You've lost me there. What has free will go to do with my post?

Or are you suggesting that you posted this up with no expectation of others opinions? In which case, why the emotive and coercive use of language? People don't tend to say "Look at this! Isn't it ridiculous?" without believing others will agree.

It's why he's a troll

Not entirely sure why that word was starred out when ubersonic quoted it though as its fine on my initial post

 

[bayo000]

Yeah, what is it with architects these days complying with the laws of physics?!

Well if you go underground you can make it bigger inside than it appears "outside"

 

[The_Abyss]

Witchcraft!

 

[randomshenans]

I like it. I also love the people who think the budget could have gone to schools and such, like the gov. budget just sits in their Halifax account and they dish it out like dinner money.

 

[koolpc]

You've lost me there. What has free will go to do with my post?

Or are you suggesting that you posted this up with no expectation of others opinions? In which case, why the emotive and coercive use of language? People don't tend to say "Look at this! Isn't it ridiculous?" without believing others will agree.

Then you don't know people buddy.

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Yeah, what is it with architects these days complying with the laws of physics?!

Due to the design of the sloping walls this doesn’t transfer well to the internal dimensions of the ground floor. There have already been comments about the size of the lobby and how big it could have been.

I hear the stuff inside is like that too. What a waste, I'm going to IKEA instead.

Sorry to inform you Ikea isn’t a museum. Bet you feel like an idiot now.