Hansom: What money can’t buy

By Hansom2018-10-05T06:00:00

The Tate’s wealthy neighbours find they’ve bought into being part of the view, while youngsters’ financial aspirations are less than realistic – and the Bloomberg building smells of more than money …

Rich aroma

What’s the deal with the water features outside the new Bloomberg HQ in the City, which one of my colleagues came upon while wandering past the Fosters-designed, Sir Robert McAlpine-built office complex the other weekend? Water flows across what looks like a tangled mass of malign tree roots and it’s all rather gothic. But worse was the powerful aroma of chlorine. As one little girl, holding hands with her mother and trying to make sense of it all, put it: “Cor, what a stink!”

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