The battle for No 1 Poultry: a history

摘要

My favourite item in the RIBA’s new exhibition ‘Circling the Square’ about Mies van der Rohe’s unrealised Mansion House Squarernproject and James Stirling’s Number One Poultry is the architectural historian Gavin Stamp’s letter to Margaret Thatcher.rnThatcher had met Stamp at the annual Spectator lunch in April ‘85 and had her ear bent by the critic.