Snohetta team pays out £6 million over Turner Contemporary

摘要

A Snohetta-led design team has agreed to cough up £6 million to Kent County Council (KCC) in an out-of-court settlement over its doomed Turner Contemporary arts centre in Margate (pictured). KCC blamed Snohetta for the ballooning budget on the project, up from £7,399,000, as stated on its 2001 competition-winning entry, to at least £25 million when the plug was pulled in February 2006. It issued legal proceedings in 2008 to recover £5.8 million in 'wasted' design costs.