Dear Supporters, Our campaign features in this weekend's Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b901a42-9d89-11e4-9b22-00144feabdc0.html It's been quite a week - and I particularly enjoyed the comments of Matt Yeoman of Buckley Gray Yeoman (the architects behind the scheme to demolish Spiegelhalter's), appearing in the online Architectural Journal. This is what he says in defence of the scheme: "The Spiegelhalter story is absolutely key to our design. We have totally embraced that David and Goliath stance which the building represents. We want that void to be at the heart of our development. With this Cor-ten artwork we can be slightly more sophisticated in telling this story [...] Of course, the counterargument is that there is no better symbol of this battle than keeping the existing building. But we say it can be commemorated in a contemporary way. And frankly there is nothing left of that building other than its front wall and four openings. It is empty behind – you wouldn’t necessarily know." 'Cor-ten'? It's Poundstore Richard Serra - great slabs (or 'shards') of 'weathered' metal material in oxidised orange, the kind of stuff you'd expect in a Docklands corporate lobby. See it here: http://www.metalfinishing-novafigure.com/corten.aspx. As for the 'void' being at the heart of the development - I couldn't have put it better myself. The proposals are heartless, ahistorical, counter-cultural and anything but sophisticated. We'll be leafletting households and collecting signatures in the Mile End Road today, and outside Spiegelhalter's from midday. Come and say hello if you happen to be passing. And do keep spreading the word - we should hit 1,500 signatures today. David