{"id":142752,"date":"2024-02-24T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/londons-bt-tower-is-to-be-repurposed-lets-just-hope-no-one-messes-with-its-60s-perfection-rowan-moore\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T22:13:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:13:28","slug":"londons-bt-tower-is-to-be-repurposed-lets-just-hope-no-one-messes-with-its-60s-perfection-rowan-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/londons-bt-tower-is-to-be-repurposed-lets-just-hope-no-one-messes-with-its-60s-perfection-rowan-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s BT Tower is to be \u2018repurposed\u2019 \u2013 let\u2019s just hope no one messes with its 60s perfection | Rowan Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe futuristic landmark is to become a hotel: fine. In charge of the project? A designer who likes to put his mark on thingsIn his 1994 movie London, a classic of poetical-geographical film-making, its director-writer Patrick Keiller speculates that the BT tower, that rises on the site that once contained a flat inhabited by Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, is a secret monument to the French poets\u2019 love. This is one of many instances of this structure\u2019s ability to generate myths \u2013 legend also had it that, as military secret, it couldn\u2019t be shown on Ordnance Survey maps. With its slender vertical fuselage and long-stalled revolving restaurant, it speaks of the hopeful futurism of the 1960s, of the white heat of technology, of Minis and miniskirts and the Beatles.Its sale, for \u00a3275m, by BT to a hotel group, if it gives the tower a secure future, is welcome. I\u2019m more troubled by the reports that the designer Thomas Heatherwick is to \u201crepurpose\u201d the building. His past work shows that he\u2019s not one to leave well alone, but rather festoon structures with over-sized flower-pots and look-at-me swirling shapes. One can only hope that he discovers some restraint. The BT Tower is already an icon. It\u2019s perfect. Let it be. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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