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Article: SCALING THE CITY.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
- Author:
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Speculative office blocks have always had problems of scale -- particularly those in the City of London where most developers are blind to human concerns. Here is one which sets rather different standards.
If you go to a high place, the top of the London Eye for instance, or the glass attic of Herzog & De Meuron's Tate Modern, you become aware that the City contains the largest collection of second-rate commercial architecture in the world. Postwar reconstruction is for the most part shoddy and dim. The '90s produced huge behemoths with vast floor plates; they loom over their dreary neighbours, flaunting themselves with clumsy gestures and flashy stone cladding. ...
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