Not exactly a disaster, somone got given a massive wodge of taxpayers money to set it up.
I’d like to know who the money went to, and if they have any ties with the councillors.
It never ceases to amaze me how totally uncreative some people are and how much money can get pissed away on them. How on earth did multiple people sign off on this in the first place?
How are they closing it? It’s a hill, lol.
The article doesn’t say. Do they mean they’re taking the steps of the side?
Six million quid for a fucking dirt grass hill? Are they mental? I wonder where exactly that money went…
Drove past this recently and was bizarre to say the least
Was prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt, but upon visiting, I can confirm it was entirely shit
I work quite a low level position in my local council and me and my colleague constantly despair over the stupid decisions the more important folk make over drinks and we had a vision of two similar people in London laughing hysterically over drinks somewhere talking about how it would take them 10 years to earn the amount he got paid for this stupid mound
I went to visit yesterday and, while the mound itself is kind of rubbish, the exhibit inside it is totally awesome.
I love how they’re celebrating the 250K people that went.
That means that, given no one ended up paying to visit, they subsides each visitor to the tune of £30 to climb up a decrepit attempt at the Teletubbies hill.
There needs to be some pretty liberal sackings/bannings from public office. Mental.
Just the rich testing the thresholds of reason. Can we get people to pay for the privilege of walking up a fake hill?
I’m curious why they’re closing it, though. The operating costs don’t seem that high now that it’s there. Isn’t it going to cost even more to uninstall, versus just keeping as a odd tourist attraction?
£6M of taxpayers money spent to spite the Labour mayor of London.
Does anyone remember this?
“Marble Arch Mound plot twist: it was originally designed by MVRDV to cover the Serpentine Gallery IN Hyde Park as part of the summer pavilion series in 2004. It was abandoned due to complexities of the design.”
I park my bus opposite several times a day, still baffled as to why anyone wants to go up it.
I went recently and actually quite enjoyed it.
The scaffold with anemic trees mound itself is shit, but the art installation _inside_ the mound is really engaging and interesting, well worth a visit for the price of absolutely free.
I went to see this when it was free. The inside is completely made of scaffolding, bit scary to climb as you can see the scaffolding through the gaps on the floor. The view wasn’t even that good and bit pointless. It serves no purpose.
There was an exhibition at the bottom which was pretty cool.
Had they not considered actual green spaces at all? No one wants artificial nature, they want the real thing. £6m wouldn’t get you much but anything is better than a fake hill.
£8 *to go up a hill* (and not even a real hill)? Sounds dreadful.
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Not exactly a disaster, somone got given a massive wodge of taxpayers money to set it up.
I’d like to know who the money went to, and if they have any ties with the councillors.
It never ceases to amaze me how totally uncreative some people are and how much money can get pissed away on them. How on earth did multiple people sign off on this in the first place?
How are they closing it? It’s a hill, lol.
The article doesn’t say. Do they mean they’re taking the steps of the side?
Six million quid for a fucking dirt grass hill? Are they mental? I wonder where exactly that money went…
Drove past this recently and was bizarre to say the least
Was prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt, but upon visiting, I can confirm it was entirely shit
I work quite a low level position in my local council and me and my colleague constantly despair over the stupid decisions the more important folk make over drinks and we had a vision of two similar people in London laughing hysterically over drinks somewhere talking about how it would take them 10 years to earn the amount he got paid for this stupid mound
I went to visit yesterday and, while the mound itself is kind of rubbish, the exhibit inside it is totally awesome.
I love how they’re celebrating the 250K people that went.
That means that, given no one ended up paying to visit, they subsides each visitor to the tune of £30 to climb up a decrepit attempt at the Teletubbies hill.
There needs to be some pretty liberal sackings/bannings from public office. Mental.
Just the rich testing the thresholds of reason. Can we get people to pay for the privilege of walking up a fake hill?
I’m curious why they’re closing it, though. The operating costs don’t seem that high now that it’s there. Isn’t it going to cost even more to uninstall, versus just keeping as a odd tourist attraction?
£6M of taxpayers money spent to spite the Labour mayor of London.
Does anyone remember this?
“Marble Arch Mound plot twist: it was originally designed by MVRDV to cover the Serpentine Gallery IN Hyde Park as part of the summer pavilion series in 2004. It was abandoned due to complexities of the design.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/p4qtru/marble_arch_mound_plot_twist_it_was_originally/
[This thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/p4qtru/marble_arch_mound_plot_twist_it_was_originally/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) from a few months ago is interesting. The OP, u/remakemark, found what looks very like the Marble Arch Mound in a coffee table book showing a series of summer exhibitions from the Serpentine gallery in Hyde Park. This design is from 2004, and it didn’t actually happen, although the other exhibitions took place.
I park my bus opposite several times a day, still baffled as to why anyone wants to go up it.
I went recently and actually quite enjoyed it.
The scaffold with anemic trees mound itself is shit, but the art installation _inside_ the mound is really engaging and interesting, well worth a visit for the price of absolutely free.
I went to see this when it was free. The inside is completely made of scaffolding, bit scary to climb as you can see the scaffolding through the gaps on the floor. The view wasn’t even that good and bit pointless. It serves no purpose.
There was an exhibition at the bottom which was pretty cool.
Had they not considered actual green spaces at all? No one wants artificial nature, they want the real thing. £6m wouldn’t get you much but anything is better than a fake hill.
£8 *to go up a hill* (and not even a real hill)? Sounds dreadful.