AND THE WINNER WAS......

 The winner of the inaugural Welsh Lobster Award for The Building Most Needs was announced as Sam Clark of Sam Clark Architects Masterplanners at the Welsh School of Architecture last night. Sam emerged the least scathed of the four finalists after being roundly abused by the selection panel led by the redoubtable Lady Gwendoline Williams of Mermaid Quay, chair of the Imaginary Lottery Fund.

 Sam's proposal to more intelligently collect and sell Welsh rain was found to have potential socio-economic benefit to Wales and his innovative designs for Sky Harvesting in Towns had the added benefit of partially concealing some of the worst excesses of speculative development and gruesome highway engineering in our towns and cities.

The reservations of Professor Sir Malcolm Parry, one of the more parochial and curmudgeonly of the selection panel, were that we already had a rainwater collection system in Wales - called rivers- were overcome when the more urban benefits were explained.

 These were potentially massive export business, greater comfort for tourists, visitors and residents, al fresco dining, multiple health benefits and reduced umbrella waste.

The increased leisure opportunities were possibly a decisive factor in the final decision of the judges given Wales' reliance on its tourism and leisure trade and were lauded by another of the panellists, the renowned boulevardier and bon vivant, Professor Richard Weston. He commented later that this appeared to be a proposal which could finally ensure that silk scarves and other millinery products are kept dry and in pristine condition



The benefits to the night time economy of Cardiff and other cities were also well illustrated by Sam Clark as follows.

This photograph graphically demonstrates both the discomfort and the sheer waste of good Welsh water on a fairly average night and, with the implementation of Sam's plan we might see the joyous scenes enacted below as more the norm in our towns and cities. 
Our warmest commendations to Sam Clark.