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Residents hit out at 'waste of money' plans to tear down Wandsworth's famous 'Pretzel' landmark and replace with a 'Middle Eastern' sculpture
['James Fielding', 'Senior Reporter']
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Residents living near a famous London landmark are outraged by developer plans to replace it with what has been described as a 'Middle Eastern' sculpture.
The proposed structure will stand approximately 25 metres tall, with a 23 metre-wide timber lattice that residents have slammed as looking 'Middle Eastern' in its design.
The 450-metre air-conditioned outdoor promenade on Doha's Gewan Island is one of the Middle Eastern petrostate's most popular tourist attractions.
He fumed: 'An appalling design - everyone who has seen it immediately comments about its clear Middle Eastern architecture - therefore it is unnecessarily inciteful.
Mr Barry Grant added: 'This timber lattice design is truly awful and doubtless will start to look even worse when exposed to the elements.