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Article: Letter: South Bank: centre of a new arts quarter for London
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 16, 1997
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Sir: Robert Maxwell (letter, 13 August) is wrong. Our proposals
for the South Bank aim to return the Royal Festival Hall to its
former glory in an appropriate and permanently improved setting. It
will be the centrepiece of an active open-to-all and diverse arts
quarter that will attract three times as many people.
It is also the view shared by Sir Leslie Martin, the architect
who so successfully designed the Royal Festival Hall in 1951.
Following the international competition for the masterplan in ...