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London's $4 million plus pile is back in business...or maybe not really in business because plans to charge admission to stand on top of the Marble Arch Mound and marvel at London have been dropped. But even for free it has shown little success at silencing critics who have called it wasteful, senseless, ugly and worse. It closed two days after it opened, with visitors pointing out its exposed surfaces and unfinished planting. At 80 feet high and sitting in a popular park, its faults were hard

As part of a promotion to rebuild the tourism business in New York City, there's now a Ferris wheel doing a three-week run near the northern end of Times Square, and like London's Marble Arch Mound , it's already drawn criticism. The 110-foot high wheel which is on Broadway near 47th street offers a ten-minute ride that's about three spins around for $20 a ticket, or $35 if you want to skip the line. Kids go for $15. Critics have complained about the high prices, short ride, and limited views

fact that "elements" of the project were "not ready." Critics were less kind, calling it a "monstrosity" while another said it was “an expensive exercise in pointlessness.” Some complained that the funds could have been better spent on pandemic relief. Others mocked it as resembling scenery from a Mario videogame. And one wit, noting the difference seen above between the plans and the reality (above) commented that “Sure, the Marble Arch Mound doesn’t look like the designs but that seems like a