I had a slight frisson last night as I was walking across Leicester Square and spotted the top of the Trafalgar Hotel across a huge and vacant building site. Described by Pevsner as ‘a period piece’, it was designed by Charles Pike & Partners in 1967. Looks like a survival from Comintern:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Thank you. I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never noticed it before – how seldom we look at skylines in the street !
Well, I’d never noticed it myself in spite of being interviewed on the top floor. Charles
Perhaps they will tear it down so we don’t have to notice it again. Some period pieces have a certain grace though their styles fall from fashion; this seems not to have any at all.
They are planning to tear it down. I would have done so if I could. Charles