Fake in the sense that the sturdy looking steel column was actually stood on some kind of box, with the actual concrete a few inches below. I may no longer expect structure to match function in a visible and straightforward way, but they could try a bit harder than this.
Or put another way, sloppy detailing, using what appears to be up-front structural components which are actually more by way of trim, with the structural stuff being hidden inside the box. There is a lot of steel work of this sort in the London Bridge area, some of it very substantial, but I dare say a lot of that is fake too.
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