The year in news

摘要

The first few months of 2010 ran smoothly; the architects we spoke to were upbeat, unemployment was down and we reported on resurrected projects including Land See's 'Walkie Talkie' by Rafael Vinoly and Richard Rogers' Leadenhall Cheesegrater. Then the wheels started falling off. The arrival of disgraced banker Fred 'the Shred' Goodwin at RMJM surprised us all. As did the first pictures of Anish Kapoor's Olympic sculpture (below), which was described by Ken Shuttleworth as 'the Wembley arch after a design review with King Kong'.