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Article: Rogers proposes glass umbrella for concrete South Bank
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 9, 1994
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THE South Bank, London's concrete culture bunker, is to be
revamped and covered by a glass umbrella or skin, under a plan by
the Richard Rogers Partnership.
The team, architects of the Lloyd's building, the Pompidou
Centre, Heathrow's planned Terminal 5 and the new European Court of
Human Rights, Strasbourg, was chosen from three architectural
practices short-listed at the beginning of the July. Sir Richard
Rogers' plan to weave together the disparate buildings (the Royal
Festival Hall, the Hayward Gallery, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and
the Purcell Room), public spaces and walkways that form the South
Bank Centre will be submitted to a detailed consultation process
during the autumn before a ...