White’s plan incorporates a much higher-density arrangement of multistorey apartment blocks around shared courtyards, lining straight axial boulevards, down which the icy winds will surge.

“This used to take ages,” he says, finessing the design of a multistorey car park in a 3D visualisation of London.

Most damningly, Labour organisations have been warning for some years that multistorey buildings in the Savar district of Dhaka are dangerous.