Ambassador, you are spoiling our view of the Thames with this boring glass cube.
Is Kieran Timberlake’s winning design for the new American embassy in London really as bad as Lord Richard Rogers thinks? Even though the public only has access to a few renderings of each proposal (and as a judge in the competition, Rogers [...]
Although Lord Richard Rogers is an estimable architect who thoroughly deserves most of the accolades given to him and his firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the 2009 Stirling Prize just awarded him seems more a product of his reputation and the high-profile nature of the commission for which he won than the superiority of the [...]
…according to Lord Richard Rogers, just a misled dilettante bored with unemployment.
Rogers’ zinger was provoked by Prince Charles’ ”back door” advocacy against Rogers’ design of a major Chelsea development funded by Qatar Diar. The prince was so successful in fact that Qatar Diar simply canceled construction - and apparently this is not the first time he has succeeded in throwing [...]