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Article: Arts 2000: is this another piece in the puzzle?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 3, 1995
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After the Bankside Tate, the Oxo Tower. Next, perhaps, a Lloyd
Webber art gallery in the revitalised Jubilee Gardens. Thereafter,
with luck, a ferris wheel, a "Globerama", and a cable car. One by
one, the elements in Richard Rogers' "string of pearls" along the
river are coming into focus.
But every celebratory map drawn to illustrate this leaves an
unlabelled hole next to the projected Crystal Palace at its centre.
And indeed, as one approaches the Festival Hall via Belvedere Road,
the eye slides over the severely functional edifice on the left.
The plain facade and serried windows of Shell's poetically named
Downstream Building announce "Big business. Boredom" as surely as
if the words ...