The Angel Building Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

摘要

Though it looks fresh, almost new-minted, sleekly Miesian-American, the Angel Building is in fact a re-fitted late 70s office block, the Angel Centre. Entered diagonally on three corners (most conspicuously on the recessed crossing of Pentonville and St John Road), the Angel Centre was a lopped rectangle around an underused open court. It had not aged well, nor had it originally been particularly responsive to the site. Moreover, it was designed at a time when energy issues only interested a few architects.