OUR MAN IN HAITI

摘要

John McAslan looks haggard. Is it the rumour that one of his prize projects, the Crossrail station at Bond Street, will be axed in the government's public spending review? Or perhaps he's braced, like so many architects, to lay off a swath of staff? It's neither, he says. He is stressed because he's been poring over some 350 entries to a competition for housing in Haiti: McAslan has taken on the immense responsibility of choosing the designs for the bulk of permanent housing to be built for the 1 million Haitians who need homes urgently after January's earthquake (see box).