teuchter
je suis teuchter
And I don't think anyone is being cynical, as it goes - they're just expressing their feelings about the new square. Turns out some people don't like it. Fair enough.
Of course, if some people don't like it fair enough. That is inevitable. What irritates me is assuming of the worst as a starting point, as if there's no possibility that anyone involved in the procurement/design/construction of the project had anything but bad intentions. It's just so overwhelmingly negative, and disheartening for the people who actually put a lot of thought and effort into these things, often in the face of a mass of difficulties and hinderances along the way. It could have been a bit of new paving, a few trees plonked about the place, and some bog standard park benches thrown in along with some cheesy off-the-shelf "public art" in the middle like any old town centre regeneration project in any old town in the UK. But it seems like an effort has been made not to do this, and maybe it's only if you've been involved in this kind of thing that you can appreciate how hard it is to achieve anything vaguely distinctive especially if you are working for a public body.
Constructive comment is one thing - say what you don't like and why, and maybe say what could have happened instead, and maybe give some examples of stuff you've seen elsewhere which you think has been effective.
But no, the starting point for some seems to be to suggest that the square has been intentionally designed to be unwelcoming, that the entire design team and clients were so lazy and ignorant as to not even realise that a windrush isn't actually a plant, and so on and so on. It's just a kind of conspiracy theory mindset - they are all just out to get us - and it doesn't seem to contribute anything useful to anything.
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No, not at all. It is the result of the local nomenclature deciding what's likely to work best forusthem.
teuchter, we have been given a windswept expanse of designer rock on purpose. Windswept Square is supposed to be uninviting, so that people will not hang out there.
This design goal has been achieved, but it is no surprise the designers' hearts were not in it, and that it shows.
This is beyond satire.
Is there really evidence that the square's designers thought that the Windrush after which the new square has been named must be a type of grass, and that their paymasters never noticed the ignorant howler?
I suppose given the nearby Rushcroft Road and Rush Common, someone may have made a lazy and ignorant assumption. What is almost beyond belief is that everyone involved in the design process was similarly ignorant.
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