Article: The South Bank, another great London project is about to collapse; Three master plans in 13 years [pounds sterling]6million on professional fees Five competitions and nine architects.

Byline: ROWAN MOORE

THE South Bank arts centre is in jeopardy.

For 13 years the South Bank centre has been trying to improve itself. The current masterplan - the third - by Rick Mather Architects, is under review, and its most significant elements are likely to be scrapped.

Officially, the South Bank "is finalising the brief, costing and checking against planning constraints to arrive at a practicable option". But according to South Bank insiders the centre's management will go to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to plead poverty early in the New Year to "look at all the options from doing nothing to the full plan".

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