The Guardian's Simon Jenkins has lambasted the scheme as a "visual wall of towers on a truly Stalinist scale".
Johnson and the planning minister, Nick Boles, have allowed a Qatari consortium to build a visual wall of towers on a truly Stalinist scale behind the Royal Festival Hall next to Waterloo.
Any effect the scene is able to muster relies not on the power of the work itself but on the ability of simple visual cues — spindly towers, radiant blue backdrop, falling paper — to jog the audience members' own memories.
The "mountain film" genre's use of cinematic technique - filters, special film stock, slow motion - to endow magnificent natural scenery with dramatic stature - provided her with key elements of her towering visual style and fostered her technical skill.
The exciting challenge for millennial listeners, who, in their passion for wines, talk up notes of peach, leather and seashells, or sing the praises of a chef who introduces subtle aromatic notes and towering visual artistry into their $45 entree, is to understand the equally elegant nuance and subtlety that jazz unleashes in their music.
Livingston officials, however, say they did abide by the State Environmental Quality Review Act, considering feedback on the visual impact of the tower, which will measure 13 feet across at the tree line.
The building's profile is telescoped, and its corners are cut into a series of small steps, which both reduces the visual impact of the tower's bulk and provides a plethora of corner offices.
For example, if one has the visual impression of a tower, that appearance is not in dispute.
Gen. Kamala D. Harris wrote to Armenta in August, saying the tribe did not adequately consider alternatives to the tower, its visual impact nor the potential effect of increased water use.
And there has rarely been a mega-tentpole movie in the last few years that did not make explicit visual reference to falling towers.
