I always keep my eye out for building site billboards and their shiny (or not so shiny) digital visualisations to add to my collection, but at Cambridge station on Saturday I got a surprise. Someone has added speech bubbles to the figures cut-and-pasted into this hoarding.
I took the photo above in June; below is the hoarding on 17 October.
And here are some of bubbles in close-up.
And finally, one that not many critics of this sort of glamourising of urban redevelopment schemes seem to consider:
I have no idea who made this intervention, but my hat goes off to you.
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Great idea but the contents of the bubbles is a bit teenaged. They missed a golden opportunity to be funny, to produce some pukka, sharp, witty satire.
Cheers
MTM
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