Jake The Muss
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It was a piece of shit IMO. What we really need is a statue of a legend/s.
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B of the bang
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birchvillablue
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Clubber said:birchvillablue said:The council sued the Architect and got their money back, including the cost to dismantle.
Is this true, as I hope it is. For it to start falling to bits on public footpaths seems like a solid case to sue him for a shirt job.
The actual sculpture was quite good and I liked it.
This is a sorry tail, the sculpture was funded by an ERD Fund (European Grant), the NWDA (Regional Development Agency Grant) and MCC to the tune of 1.42 Million, MCC sued the Architect and contractors and they settled out of court for 1.7 Million.
MCC promised to store the sculpture and rebuild, because it was funded by public and European money mostly, I am not sure if the monies were returned to respective agencies, but MCC have no appetite for replacing it and it does not feature on the Campus project so I assume the money has ended up in the council pockets.
I personally also liked the sculpture, and was sad to see it dismantled.
Bluemoon dan
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I'm pleased to see a few other people saying they actually quite liked it. I always thought I was the only one!
Blue Streak
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Bluemoon dan said:I'm pleased to see a few other people saying they actually quite liked it. I always thought I was the only one!
No you aren't the only one mate. My Dad really admired it as well. Personally I thought it was a crock of shite and a waste of money.
Clubber
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birchvillablue said:Clubber said:birchvillablue said:The council sued the Architect and got their money back, including the cost to dismantle.
Is this true, as I hope it is. For it to start falling to bits on public footpaths seems like a solid case to sue him for a shirt job.
The actual sculpture was quite good and I liked it.
This is a sorry tail, the sculpture was funded by an ERD Fund (European Grant), the NWDA (Regional Development Agency Grant) and MCC to the tune of 1.42 Million, MCC sued the Architect and contractors and they settled out of court for 1.7 Million.
MCC promised to store the sculpture and rebuild, because it was funded by public and European money mostly, I am not sure if the monies were returned to respective agencies, but MCC have no appetite for replacing it and it does not feature on the Campus project so I assume the money has ended up in the council pockets.
I personally also liked the sculpture, and was sad to see it dismantled.
Cheers mate. Sounds a right sorry affair. It did look good. Hopefully something else may replace it, but not being so dangerous or so expensive.
sergiokun
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Jake The Muss said:It was a piece of shit IMO. What we really need is a statue of a legend/s.
Statue of legends will be nice
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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kaalk said:I liked it!
But it wasn't safe so had to go. Shame.
I liked it and it should have been made safe. Looked grand on that corner. £2m down to £17k. Someone's made a tidy sum out of that! And I bet the polltax payers of Manchester footed the bill!
LongsightM13
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Would have been better in stainless steel, agree.simonk said:Liked it, might have been better shiny, but thats personal choice.
And would undoubtedly been better if it hadnt started to fall apart - they were blaming the manufacture of some of the spikes I last heard.
The bloke who designed it has done some great stuff, and most of it seems to still be in 1 piece
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It ended up looking like a dead dandelion