Thomas Heatherwick & National Covid Memorial

[SpookyFrank]

Is anywhere else having a formal COVID-19 memorial ?

In most cultures it's considered poor taste to talk of memorials while following a policy which allows the number of deaths to continue to rise.

The tagline for the memorial could be, 'never again, just as soon as we stop doing it'.

 

[Spandex]

Could save on metal costs by just having Johnson bronzed.

Bronzed like Dale Winton?

Or bronzed like Jill Masterson in Goldfinger?

Or bronzed like Viserys Targaryen in Game of Thrones?

I know gold was used for the last two, but fuck spending that much on the bumbling senicidal prick.

 

[BillRiver]

Heatherwick's Vessel closes again after fourth suicide

"The Vessel viewpoint at New York's Hudson Yards has temporarily closed after a fourth person died by suicide after jumping from the Heatherwick Studio-designed structure.
The attraction is currently closed after a 14-year-old boy jumped from its eighth floor last Thursday, just two months after the viewpoint reopened with new measures in place to prevent suicides.
It is the fourth suicide at the tourist attraction designed by British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio since it opened in 2019."

"Concerns about the potentially climbable barriers were raised as early as 2016, such as when Audrey Wachs of the Architects Newspaper said: "when you build high, folks will jump"."

"Alongside concerns about its safety, the building has also attracted criticism over its aesthetic, for being a privately-funded development and the fact that Hudson Yards owned the rights to photographs taken at the structure."