The finest heritage projects look at the meaning of a building in the round

摘要

The emotional pull of a building is beautifully described by AJ competitions editor Merlin Fulcher in his appraisal of Haworth Tompkins' work with Battersea Arts Centre (see page 44). Merlin's memories of the centre - going to birthday parties there as a child, working behind the scenes at Punchdrunk's atmospheric production of The Masque of the Red Death -underline the power that buildings have in forming our impressions of the world.