Construction industry gossip: You've got to laugh

By Hansom2019-01-25T06:00:00

Andrew Marr gets the BCO giggling with pseudo-sympathy for the Mays and conductor Simon Rattle goes overboard on the architectural trash talk

Fungal confection

Taking a stroll on the south bank of the Thames the other day, I noticed that most iconic of brutalist structures, Fitzroy Robinson & Partners’ Sampson House, is finally being torn down. I looked up the paperwork for the PLP multi-tower scheme that will replace it and discovered the design of Sampson House “was born out of the extensive and sophisticated computer equipment that would process the cheques” for Lloyds Bank, and that while there was a need for large open-plan spaces “there was lesser need for natural light”. Lloyds workers were a bit like mushrooms, perhaps. Kept in the dark and fed …

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