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

[hash tag]

Mole hill? The place where government moles will leak up and coming announcements or leaks of any kind.

 

[prunus]

The Protuberance

 

[Artaxerxes]

Pustule

 

[MysteryGuest]

The little wen

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Was up there Saturday after the rain. It's lookin alot better now things have grown. It's an impressive but slightly mad idea. It's quite big because it has to be higher than the London plane trees in the park. There weren't many people queuing but then as with the rest of London there just aren't that many people around.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Was around there this afternoon. There were definitely people on it, but more people wandering around the base looking at it suspiciously. (I didn't go up, couldn't be arsed.)

 

[editor]

Oh my Lord it's crap

 

[spring-peeper]

Still not seeing it to be wheelchair accessible......

 

[hash tag]

Oh my Lord it's crap View attachment 283127

That looks, errr, fantastic.

 

[platinumsage]

Still not seeing it to be wheelchair accessible......

 

[editor]

The panoramic views are mainly the tops of the nearest trees, but you've got great views along the roads. For £6 it was an outrageous rip off for something that you'd hard pressed to spend more than 10 minutes at.

 

[hash tag]

Forget it being free or charged for. It simply shouldn't exist. An unnatural blot on the landscape.

 

[Spymaster]

Fucking load of old bollocks. Looks like the top floor of a building site. Embarrassing.

 

[clicker]

I reckon all the crap from the building site next to it , has just been dumped into a heap and turfed.

 

[editor]

Here's my review:

Underwhelmed by The Mound – a photographic journey up London’s newest tourist attraction -

Opening late last month, The Mound is a 25 metre high artificial hill located next to the Marble Arch monument. Swiftly branded London’s ‘worst attraction,’ admission prices plummeted within days from the initial asking price of £8 per person, to £6.50, to £4 before giving up altogether and...

www.urban75.org

 

[hash tag]

It looks like they have staff up there? So in addition to the costs of ongoing maintenance they are having to pay staff to? Any tea, coffee, drinks or toilets on top?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Bet they won't let you take a sledge up when it snows either.

 

[klang]

how long will it be there for?

 

[editor]

It looks like they have staff up there? So in addition to the costs of ongoing maintenance they are having to pay staff to? Any tea, coffee, drinks or toilets on top?

There was absolutely nothing at the top, apart from two bored looking security staff. One was trying to trying to alleviate his boredom by offering to take pics of people whenever they got their phones out, but it's hardly an attractive backdrop.

 

[hash tag]

Security staff; why, how much do they cost? Is the thing open and staffed 24/7.
I now see the whole thing is caged in.
It does ask the question why?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I think it is very British; when we try too hard it is shite, we tend to be effortlessly good at most stuff, give us the Olympics, we'll moan like fuck and then pull off a blinder without breaking a sweat. But a total 'look-at-me' project will always be shite.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

The true cost has now been revealed to be £6 million

 

[hash tag]

The true cost has now been revealed to be £6 million

What the rally mean it was nearer 12!

 

[krtek a houby]

A mountain of madness.

 

[ska invita]

I think it is very British; when we try too hard it is shite, we tend to be effortlessly good at most stuff, give us the Olympics, we'll moan like fuck and then pull off a blinder without breaking a sweat. But a total 'look-at-me' project will always be shite.

Ah the British...a fine race. Its in the DNA yknow.

 

[Orang Utan]

The Green Elephant

 

[Spymaster]

I watched 3 blokes fixing the green mat stuff down with bungee cords yesterday

 

[andysays]

A mountain of madness.

Not sure it's big enough to count as a mountain, TBH, more a hillock of hysteria.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Amazing

 

[salem]

Apparently it's free during August so I might have a wander up it just to be able to say I was there.

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

I fear you may be right - From the BBC article - A review to "understand what went wrong and ensure it never happens again" is under way, Westminster Council said.