The proposed "crushed can" tower blocks at Kingsway, Hove, are disgraceful and would bring ridicule on Brighton and Hove.
Many people have moved to Brighton for its cultural, environmental and social qualities.
It has special charm and does not need this appalling example of crap culture on the low aesthetic level of Tracy Emin's bed, Chris Ofili's elephant dung pictures and Damien Hirst's preserved shark.
Architecture at its best is a fine art, like painting. Sensation is not art - it is crude opportunism.
The "crushed can" tower blocks are so offensive to taste that the public and politicians should oppose them passionately.
Tower blocks generally are now considered to be an out-dated, antisocial concept motivated by the maximisation of profit.
I am 87, a retired senior lecturer in a faculty of architecture and you may suspect I am merely critical of the new.
But, in fact, I designed the Solar House of the Future and I am now patenting a new aesthetic and economical solar building system.
I hope readers who have younger energy than I will - if they share my views - defend the quality of the built environment for the people of Brighton and Hove.
-Arthur North, Brighton
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