“St Pancras, the peculiarly repellent embracing couple the size of a terraced house, cost in excess of £1,000,000 to produce. I cringe at the thought of continental visitors being confronted with this ghastly work.”
The Architects’ Website
FULL ARTICLE
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=577&storycode=3106310&c=2&encCode=00000000018fc40f
“Achieving even basic design quality [in England] is such a battle. Little investment with public buildings or infrastructure is also dispiriting.”
The Architects’ Website
FULL ARTICLE
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=577&storycode=3093837&c=2&encCode=00000000018fd3b5
The Neues Museum is such a rich composition, so carefully, almost obsessively, brought back to life that it falls into no category… It is an object lesson in timeless architecture. I can guarantee that you have never seen architecture quite like this before.”
Architecture News
FULL ARTICLE
http://www.hughpearman.com/2009/07.html
“Design is a marriage between art and technology and the creation of things. There is some balance between the technical and the artistic… On the other hand, architecture is very political, whether you accept it or not.”
Architecture News
FULL ARTICLE
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature280.htm
“Developers build buildings on their own terms, while planners only make sweeping decisions regarding how a city should be. Urban design has a great ability to bridge the two… as cities become more chaotic, we need urban design more than ever.”
Five Foot Way
FULL ARTICLE
http://www.fivefootway.com/2009/03/12/the-making-of-an-architect-and-urban-designer-interview-with-jan-wampler/
“The difference designing a building in Germany versus Canada is so great that one wonders whether we inhibit the same world.”
BD&C News
FULL ARTICLE
http://www.bdcnetwork.com/article/CA6643178.html
