The architect, Terry Farrell, has been commissioned to produce a government sponsored report on how architects might be more successful in getting their message across: a manifesto that will become a rallying cry for British architecture. It has been suggested that what the industry needs is a media figurehead – an architectural ‘Jamie Oliver’ who [...]

Sad news indeed. I remember the office buildings being constructed. My father worked for Arups, and he took me on site when I was a child. I have memories of the Richard Serra sculpture being craned into place, and ascending one of the half-finished buildings in a construction lift, with a hard-hat wobbling around on [...]