Client of the Year Award acclaims a bold vision

摘要

Without clients there would be no architecture and without good clients there is rarely good architecture. Sometimes, in spite of a poor client, an outstanding piece of architecture can result, but this is the exception rather than the norm. When excellent clients and architects combine, the results can be spectacular, for example the Jubilee Line stations commissioned by Roland Paoletti (the first winner of the RIBA Client of the Year Award in 1998) are an inspiring legacy of which the UK can be proud.