From Marcus Binney, president of Save Jersey’s Heritage
IN your article (JEP, 7 August) on the proposed Zephyrus development on the waterfront, Stephen Izaat quotes me in support of these proposals.

At no stage have I spoken to Mr Izatt about this matter, although I was briefly shown drawings by Jim Greaves, of Hopkins Architects.

My immediate reaction was that they were rather boxy and monotonous, and I suggested that he could break the grid by introducing strongly modelled bay windows projecting beyond the façades.

Bay windows, often rising the full height of buildings, are a feature of seaside towns all over the British Isles and continental Europe.

As it happens, Hopkins are rather good at them, using them as a major feature of their handsome remodelling of the old Financial Times building in London as well as their new building on Parliament Square.

The four bay windows (not balconies) now shown in the design on the seafront are, in my view, a token gesture and do not remedy the limitations of the design.

This is an important and prominent site demanding striking treatment, of the corner in particular. On the basis of what I now see in the JEP, I personally consider that the proposals for this site need a rethink.

Among the matters to be considered is whether a sinuous façade treatment would be better than the sharp and repetitive setbacks currently proposed.