Marble Arch is going to get a hill and it's going to be called The Mound

[Favelado]

There's a budget for everything in London isn't there? Shame the rest of the country doesn't get seem to be subject to lavish spending.

 

[tim]

There's a budget for everything in London isn't there? Shame the rest of the country doesn't get seem to be subject to lavish spending.

Don't worry they'll be some pork-barrelling in those 'Red-Wall' constituencies before the next election. Let's hope it's rather more substantial than some scaffolding disguised as a grassy knoll.

 

[Pickman's model]

i'm actually quite a convert to this mound. there'll have to be some changes, granted, before it's fit for purpose. the addition of a big boulder. a channel for it to roll down at night. but yes, it's a grand addition to london, a mound for the renowned classicist boris johnson to daily re-enact the fate of sisyphus

 

[Yossarian]

Installing a pile of earth and calling it "The Mound" sounds like it might have been thought up by the Londinium Tourist Board in 221.

 

[platinumsage]

i'm actually quite a convert to this mound. there'll have to be some changes, granted, before it's fit for purpose. the addition of a big boulder. a channel for it to roll down at night. but yes, it's a grand addition to london, a mound for the renowned classicist boris johnson to daily re-enact the fate of sisyphus

Note that it's not actually a mound but a scaffold, and not the first scaffold to be erected there either...

 

[RileyOBlimey]

Not the Mound, the Boil.

 

[Pickman's model]

Note that it's not actually a mound but a scaffold, and not the first scaffold to be erected there either...

which part of 'there will have to be some changes' didn't you understand?

 

[Pickman's model]

Not the Mound, the Boil.

the boris boil

the prime minister's pimple

 

[JimW]

It's the tomb for Prince Philip, but since his widow is head of the CE they had to keep his pagan stipulations quiet.

 

[BassJunkie]

Why no mention of a slide? What's the point of ascending it if one can't then descend at speed and be projected straight into the park?

 

[platinumsage]

which part of 'there will have to be some changes' didn't you understand?

"Remove the entire thing and put something completely different in its place" is not "some" changes.

 

[Pickman's model]

"Remove the entire thing and put something completely different in its place" is not "some" changes.

you're right, it's one change

 

[Artaxerxes]

 

[Sue]

Installing a pile of earth and calling it "The Mound" sounds like it might have been thought up by the Londinium Tourist Board in 221.

It's so 1781.

The Mound - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[FridgeMagnet]

People have now been to the Mound. Here's a fairly complete twitter thread from one - not entirely negative but not what you'd call a massive recommendation.

In summary: I enjoyed it. More as you might enjoy a bad statue of Christiano Ronaldo, or a car park Santa's Grotto, with dogs pretending to be reindeer, than as a dazzling spectacle.

As long as you go with that expectation it is ok - just a shame it cost 2 million pounds.

It doesn't really look amazingly finished to me.

 

[spitfire]

People have now been to the Mound. Here's a fairly complete twitter thread from one - not entirely negative but not what you'd call a massive recommendation.



It doesn't really look amazingly finished to me.

That looks totally crap, inside and out.

 

[platinumsage]

It feels like one end of an exciting zip-wire ride, but they didn't get permission to install the actual zip wire.

 

[prunus]

How does that cost 2 million quid? It’s a scaffolding framework clad with board and a bunch of earth and trees stuck on it.

 

[Lord Camomile]

How does that cost 2 million quid? It’s a scaffolding framework clad with board and a bunch of earth and trees stuck on it.

Costly errors or false starts?

NB: those costly errors may involve humans

 

[Lord Camomile]

 

[SpookyFrank]

People have now been to the Mound. Here's a fairly complete twitter thread from one - not entirely negative but not what you'd call a massive recommendation.



It doesn't really look amazingly finished to me.

Someone's laughing all the way to their coke dealer that's for sure.

 

[Lord Camomile]

The really frustrating thing, personally, is that this sort of shit turns people against the whole idea of public art or council-funded projects.

 

[killer b]

That thread is enjoyable, but he's really pulled his punches - given a different angle it's practically in the Lapland New Forest arena.

 

[fishfinger]

That thread is enjoyable, but he's really pulled his punches - given a different angle it's practically in the Lapland New Forest arena.

It's already been posted in that thread.

 

[8ball]

Installing a pile of earth and calling it "The Mound" sounds like it might have been thought up by the Londinium Tourist Board in 221.

Apparently someone on the committee objected to “The Grassy Knoll”.

 

[fishfinger]

Apparently someone on the committee objected to “The Grassy Knoll”.

How about "mons publico"?

 

[killer b]

It's already been posted in that thread.

I see! I don't think it's quite there yet, needs more weeping children really.

 

[A380]

 

[19sixtysix]

Is this just westminster trying to clear the homeless and the Roma from the area. I haven't been in london for a while but the cops, immigration and westminster council vehicles were regular visitors to marble arch.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Is this just westminster trying to clear the homeless and the Roma from the area. I haven't been in london for a while but the cops, immigration and westminster council vehicles were regular visitors to marble arch.

Christ, hadn't thought of it and no idea if it is, but sadly would not be surprised in the slightest if it was.

Someone did suggest (very tongue in cheek) that the structure could actually serve as shelter for those who needed it.