Hepworth Wakefield David Chipperf ield Architects

摘要

Context is a funny thing. Its absence makes architecture virtually impossible yet its presence can either overwhelm or underline inadequacies in a contemporary architecture that lacks the complexity and sensitivity to respond to place, language, tradition or modernity in a meaningful way. This is a site with context in buckets: some exquisite - the gushing weir, the variegated Victorian industrial riverside architecture; and some execrable - the crushingly typical traffic planning and a relentlessly grim walk from the city centre, which appears to encapsulate all of England's problem with modern urbanism.