My regret, is a result of knowing many of the people involved in the organization of the festival and I know how hard they worked and how much money they pinched from the public purse. I still admire their insane ambition, both for themselves and the profession of architecture, let alone my admiration for their relentless egos.

I am afraid this Festival of London Architecture is without peer in terms of waste, including money, time and intellectual pursuit. No doubt that with over 600 events there are a handful of very good and worthwhile contributions (most of which were happening in any case without FLA branding them as their own) but I feel sorry for these people whose work will not only be lost and forgotten in the insanity of 600 events about something, it is clear most Londoners’ are not so interested in, but when the dust settles on this hubris of an event that they will have been embarrassed to have been involved with such waste and as the Director himself says ‘indulgence’.

This NLA Skywalk is just another example provided by FLA and NLA of what is deeply corrupt and wrong with architecture and urbanism today. So much waste.