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Article: LETTERS
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- The Architects' Journal
- Article date:
- April 19, 2007
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DIANA FOUNTAIN IS A VICTIM OF ITS OWN SUCCESS
It may console Neil Porter of Gustafson Porter (AJ 29.03.07) to know that on a steaming hot July afternoon last year there were far more people cooling off at the Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park than were across the road at the Reni Koolhaasdesigned Serpentine Pavilion.
In terms of'behind-closed-doors'testing of landscape projects, it is not uncommon for designers to snag play features by inviting the children of design and/or construction teams to a preopening party on site. Had that happened on the Diana project, the firm might now be enjoying justifiable acclaim for a carefully conceived, well-executed and popular project whose ...