As a long-term resident of the Hove area, my heart sank when I received the glossy brochure "King Alfred Waterfront".
I was recently in the new Gehry building on the MIT campus at Boston and was shocked how tacky, arbitrary and disappointing it was.
At least in that site, the outer iconography of the building was a visual asset on the otherwise bland MIT campus. The same requirement is entirely absent from the King Alfred plans.
The whole joy of the Hove/Brighton seafront is its openness to air, light and water and the change of seasons tangibly escaping to the edge of the city.
This is the last place we need the assertion of egos and the cacophony of structures shouting for attention.
-Chris Rose, Hove
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