Hynde calls for office block action

Rock singer Chrissie Hynde has entered the debate over a controversial office block being built next to Dundee’s V&A building – by branding it a “monstrosity” that should spark an “uprising” from the city’s residents.

The Pretenders frontwoman, who criticised the new office block during the band’s show at the nearby Slessor Gardens on Sunday, called for it to be “torn down”.

Critics have accused the city council of a major blunder by allowing the office block to be built too close to the widelyacclaimed museum, which has been designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.

Hynde told BBC Scotland: “In the daylight I noticed this quite beautiful building in the background, which I didn’t realise is the V&A building, and this horrible carcass going up in front of it. I did mention that (during the show) because it was actually distracting me from what I was trying to do.

“I’ve been walking around Dundee and I was walking down Union Street there and I saw the V&A again, a really beautiful vista of it and this monstrosity that’s totally obliterating the view of that beautiful building. I’d have it torn down. There should be some sort of uprising against it.”