a twenty fifth cartoon...'city lights'

Either side of the Olympic Games, and in conjunction with London’s new claim to be the Financial Capital of the World over New York, there has been a lot of building in the City.  While these towering sky-scrapers are on one-level monuments to a perhaps less-than-savoury form of capitalism, from an architectural perspective alone, many of them are exciting designs – daring even.  Still, it is amusing that each new monolith has been infantilised by press and public alike: ‘the Gherkin’, ‘the Cheese-grater’, ‘the Mobile-phone’ etcetera.  Or is it?! Either way, passing mention should be made to Leon Kossof and John Virtue, who have done London justice with their excellent city-scapes in recent years.