I wailed about the difficulties facing the people trying to fix up / sell New York City’s Chrysler Building, and saw the possibility of the disappearance of that wonderful structure.
Well, it’s not just Manhattan. Heeeere’s London:
A number of major London office blocks costing more than £300million each have recently been put up for sale at the same time.
The four buildings have hit the market at a time where deals have been extremely rare due to rising interest rates and continuous uncertainty about working from home.
All the same issues facing the Chrysler.
Unlike the Chrysler, however, the four London skyscrapers are anything but wonderful:
The first three are of the Le Corbusier-Gropius-Modernist ilk — and frankly would be no great loss to any skyline, let alone London’s — while the last, the aptly-nicknamed Can of Ham, is an architectural carbuncle of the direst kind, but at least it has something of a sense of fun about it.
And while I and many others would dearly miss the Chrysler Building, these British edifices would not only not be missed, but applauded in their implosion.
So mote it be.