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Shimmering discs #1


Bill Allsopp

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Four storeys high, and wrapped in a sinuous, seamless outer skin decorated with 15,000 spun aluminium discs , Selfridges is a truly audacious achievement. Designed by Future Systems, architects of the Space Age-style press pavilion at Lord's cricket ground.

 

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Bill, I see this all the time (living and working in Brum) but enjoyed your rendition... Personally, however, I can nedver look at it without thinking what it will look like in 25 years or so, when some discs have dropped off and the outside is streaked and stained and inside many of the concessions are given over to Poundlands and budget shops... And that isn't just my inherent pessimism -- it is precisely what happened to the original Bull Ring in Birmingham.

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.... I can never look at it without thinking what it will look like in 25 years or so, when some discs have dropped off and the outside is streaked and stained ......

I had wondered along the same lines myself

 

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