Above: the Observer last Sunday thought that the Autumn Statement might refer to the redevelopment of Elephant & Castle district. Although several major spending projects were announced, Elephant & Castle was not among them. The area is already so blighted by modernist architecture that it is difficult to see how it can recover.
Above: an example of the intellectual arrogance that has divorced public design from popular appreciation is the Faraday monument in the middle of the roundabout at Elephant & Castle. Obviously the idea of a monument to Faraday in the form of a Faraday Box is very clever. But how many of the thousands of people who pass by this roundabout each day get the joke?
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