Digital Cloud

Here's an artist's impression of the latest nonsense suggested for London, a load of interconnected plastic bubbles on tall mesh towers: Digital Cloud. The design has been submitted for the competition to select a centrepiece for the 2012 Olympic Games, but the team behind the design have got fed up with Mayor Bouncy Boris's dithering and have launched an appeal for subscriptions to build the thing. Looks to me like a nest of barrage balloons to catch low-flying suicide bombers. Let's hope the plastic is strong enough to withstand seagulls' pecks. Click the title link for details.