Описание: This is the corner of the former Tottenham premises of John McAslan Partners at 451-453 High Road Tottenham. On 18 January 2017 it was empty and shuttered as McAslan had left. Scarpered. (Maybe from cockney rhyming slang Scapa Flow = go. Or perhaps from the Italian scappare - to escape or flee.) The side shutter was graffiti tagged. But graffiti on one of Haringey Council's high profile vanity projects doesn't look good. So it was gone if not 'in a trice', then pretty quickly. Unlike some other tagging in Tottenham. (For instance the Haringey Law Centre.) McAslan got a free design studio, funded by Haringey Council at a cost of at least lb181,548. The pretence was that this would assist the regeneration of Tottenham. They won at least two substantial building design contracts in Tottenham which I assume helped to regenerate their bank balance. But I never understood why a desperately hard-up local council needed to subsidise a successful and celebrated international starchitect firm. (=star+architect) Their website gives their ethos as: "We create architecture that improves people's lives." And they have "Great Clients". Explaining: "Great clients + great design = great buildings." [Source: McAslan website, where there's lots more fine-sounding but vacuous architect-burble.] The 451 sign at the front of the studio seemed to be coming loose. (Scroll down for photo.]
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