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Originally Posted by Incognitas
For a moment there I thought you were alluding to the Portsmouth Millennium Tower.Commissioned for the millennium and only this month in 2005 have they afixed the spire to it.Most expensive white elephant I've ever seen.This is the city that just finally knocked down The Tricorn only to replace it with this
I'm sorry for the size of the picture but frankly that's the largest picture I could find online of it complete.To judge the REAL horror of it just take a look of how it looked as it was being built here
I suppose IF it had been built in time and to cost no one would be complaining but hell it's been a blot on the landscape while it's been built.I suspect that in another 30 years they will be trying to demolish it just like the award winning Tricorn.
I'm glad I don't live in Portsmouth.I just live in Gosport where the council have decided they can't afford the Millennium project they built(Explosion) the local museum because they haven't got £85,000 to spare to keep it running. 
Anyway back to your tower.Very swish!! and cheap by comparison.  |
Last time I drove past, the tricorn centre had been replaced by a large pile of brown dirt (quite an improvement too!)
At least the tower will be open in this millenium, unlike the dome which closed the night before the millenium started!
It just doesn't look right though, doesn't fit with Gun Warf.
And what the heck is the Jack (as in the metal thing you pick up while you bounce a ball) doing on a pole out in the water by Tipner greyhound stadium after the "Sails of the South"??
Now, back on topic, it's got wheels so that case must be good