Sorry, RegRag1977, Boris Johnson, mayor of London, is a Conservative...

It looks to me like that is a rocket gantry which is executed in a 'Kinda-Sorta Art Deco pseudo Post Modern' style. It could be that the British government teamed up with Richard Branson for a mission to Mars. Can you just picture that beautiful 'Virgin' logo tastefully painted upside the tower?

Or it could be an effort to improve relations between the UK and France. They already have the Chunnel, so why not have a tram service that is strung up between the Eiffel and the Mittal towers?

I agree, my first thought was an electric pylon used to hold high voltage wires.

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Originally posted by AndyJWest:
Sorry, RegRag1977, Boris Johnson, mayor of London, is a Conservative...

Pity...Then, as Aimail suggested, it must really be something out of Mordor

Btw, thanks for the info, i didn't know anything about London's mayor

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Originally posted by Messaschnitzel:

Or it could be an effort to improve relations between the UK and France. They already have the Chunnel, so why not have a tram service that is strung up between the Eiffel and the Mittal towers?

Could be. Good idea knowing how the British named their Channel Tunnel terminal station, (Waterloo )

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Originally posted by Ba5tard5word:
Looks like a Waco glider that got lost and crashed.

Nah they used that design for the Angel of the North

It's a prop for an upcoming Doctor Who film.

Isn't it a monument to say "Look at all the extra money we have to throw away"?

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Originally posted by Choctaw111:
Isn't it a monument to say "Look at all the extra money we have to throw away"?

That, in a nutshell, is what most monuments are for. If you really want to impress someone, you make one, and then send it to them as a gift:

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Originally posted by RegRag1977:


Could be. Good idea knowing how the British named their Channel Tunnel terminal station, (Waterloo )

Waterloo station was so called long before the Channel Tunnel terminus arrived, and that was only a temporary terminus. The actual terminus for tunnel passenger trains currently in use is St. Pancras.

I believe there is an Austerlitz in Paris?

Dire, dire monument. Red Star over Moscow meets pylon/home chain grimness.

Funnily enough the neighbour was telling me about watching Hurricanes chasing 110s over Essex as a kid only last week. The pylons that nobody knew what were for were a keen target for the Huns but only after the war did he learn about why they were so interested in them. He had a chest full of bits of German planes but his brother chucked it out a few years ago before he died. I was agape.

"I believe there is an Austerlitz in Paris?"

...and a Stalingrad.

If you look at it, Eiffel Tower is equally hideous... Many Paris citizens of that time hated it with a passion and thought it was expensive, ugly and looked ridiculous.

Only because it could be used as a communication center, it was saved from being scrapped and sold.

Decades passed before it was the Paris icon it is today.

I don't say this to defend that London monstrosity. I say this to make French think again... and scrap their old Paris monstrosity.

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Sorry, RegRag1977, Boris Johnson, mayor of London, is a Conservative...

He is?

We must all support this glorious conservative monument!