Hansom Missing you

摘要

Remember the days when elderly enfant terrible Will Alsop would rail against the British architectural cabal of Norman Foster, Nick Grimshaw and Richard Rogers, niter alia? Well, it seems the rebel has been tamed. Alsop's RIBA Award-winning Palestra office building is now home to Design for London, which is the Greater London Authority's architectural department. In fact, just a few weeks ago I saw no less an establishment figure than Lord Rogers beat a path to Alsop's building wearing an arrestingrnmagenta and turquoise shirt. I'm no Trinny nor even a Susannah, but I must say his apparel contrasted nicely with the lop-sided building's canary yellow cladding panels...