@Iacchus 404680 wrote:
bullshit
you didn’t see the building. It clearly hadn’t been used in over a decade. Completely decrepit, knee high in dust, and full of asbestos warnings. No fucking way there had been fashion shows there.
Scumtek have squatted buildings currently in use before but this wasn’t one of them.
Asbestos warnings are routinely stuck around buildings – all they say is not to damage the existing asbestos (its actually relatively safe left in one piece). doesn’t stop the place being used. there was even similar warnings in a well known local newspapers office in SE England (owned by a liberal leftie newspaper group) – they would have all kicked off if they thought it was unsafe. also, Telephone Exchanges are still full of the bloody stuff… Post Office thought it was a good idea to use it everywhere in case a short circuited cable started a fire.
here’s proof of the tarquins interest in that site – it was definitely used for London Fashion week 2009.. (probably someone involved with this or hired as casual crew for these events knew about how to find any security holes for access)
London Fashion Week : News
RED BULL, the fuel of London Fashion Week, is back again for an amazing seventeenth season offering much needed energy for designers, media and models alike. In addition this year Fashion Factory makes its debut, transforming the iconic shell of the Old Sorting Office, High Holborn, London, into a fully-functioning creative and show space, where emerging talent such as Hannah Marshall and Felder Felder can show their collections alongside world-renowned names such as Vivienne Westwood and PPQ. Fashion Factory will feature three days of official catwalk shows from both on and off-schedule designers, while providing a rare insight into the workings and influences behind major fashion shows. Alongside the spectacular, hi-spec triangular show space, Fashion Factory will include a live creative space, an evolving interactive area featuring a series of Q&A sessions with designers, live runway feeds, backstage reporting and interactive showcases from emerging photographers and artists. Red Bull will continue to give wiiings to London Fashion Week through the exciting, new, BFC tent at Somerset House, with unlimited supplies of product for designers, journalists and models in addition to providing product to all schedule designers in the run up to fashion week.
Contact: Alex Barlow +44 (0) 7766 502 057 / Lex Deasley Tel. +44 (0) 7876 145 777
also this for planned new Arts Council HQ
New National Office > Site > New Site
Even the Daily Mail can’t go as far as inventing entire websites and businesses and fake events and all the info can be cross referenced to check its legit. Even if it is not in regular use (and it wouldn’t be due to health and safety laws) it doesn’t matter anyway.
If someone has actually bought it, and someone else rents it its their private property – they can lunch it out if they want to for months/years – they still have the right to decide who can and can’t use it, most people have an expectation that the cops would defend someones private property. The cops have the right in law to at least try and remove burglars/trespassers from it (whether they succeed is another matter).
Its not even that a load of starving homeless people were planning to live in it or stuff like that freeschool thing they done last year, just a load of sketchy ravers what are more likely to trash the place.
papers and the cops are no worse for disinformation than (some) ravers are for denying the amount of negative social impact the drugs based counterculture they are associated with is responsible for…
