Detailing

Made a detour this morning to take in the Zestan development in Court Lane, on the edge of Court Rec., I development I have been noticing for some years now, most recently at reference 1.

The place still looks very new, but it is also starting to look lived in, so perhaps by this time next year it will have settled down.

In the meantime, I complain about poor detailing. Arty bricks topped by neat railings; fair enough. But what is holding the tops of the brick columns together? Even if there were a concrete spine, it looks all too likely that the bricks at the top will start to flake away over time - with the old fashioned solution being a copying stone. But Zestan, despite their arty pretensions, didn't manage to think of that or anything else. Perhaps a neat, black finished steel collar, to match the railings?

Unless, that is, I malign them, and something cunning but unseen is tying it all together.

PS: I think the Wellingtonia mentioned near the beginning of reference 1, must be one or both of the juveniles in Longmead Road.

Reference 1: psmv4: A walk in the park.