Camouflage at La Collette

Saturday 22nd November 2008, 10:00AM GMT.

From Terry Connor.
MOST people can draw a box, crosshatch it with strips of steel and concrete and stuff glass into the interspaces.
However, but I discern a new trend in this ancient and noble vocation.

The article on the new incinerator (Jersey Evening Post, 15 November) reports that the fin-al cost is going to include a sum for landscaping in order to try to minimise the visual impact of the building.

One is therefore led to conclude that the architect strives to bend his skills to the design of something so ugly (this is no mean feat, bearing in mind the competition from the surrounding so-called iconic structures) that it needs a certain degree of decorative camouflage to make its appearance slightly less unacceptable.

I understand that this quantum leap forward in an ancient craft is going to be known as the ‘bold box’ design.
Kerami,
Pontac,
St Clement.