In message , at 15:29:50
on Thu, 13 Dec 2007, MichaelJP remarked:
I like the statue; it is quite impressive, and people seem to be
photographing it, but I suppose what sticks in your throat is all the PR
guff about the statue being a place for people to meet,

I find that the people photographing it get in the way, detracting from
any incentive to stay there. There isn't much room between the base and
the adjacent transverse glass screens for example. Although there's a
huge empty space airside of that glass screen.

like Eros in Piccadilly Circus.

And as a born and bred Londoner I've never actually regarded the Eros
statue as a place to meet. Perhaps because for much of my life it was
rather awkwardly on a traffic island in the middle of the road! In those
days you'd meet at a Lyons Corner House - so filling St Pancras with
several Bistros (and they would be today) might be a small step in the
right direction.

Those sort of places arise naturally, they're not designed in.

Exactly.
--
Roland Perry