At a recent post-Wembley dinner hosted by the Architecture Foundation, one of the rumours doing the rounds was that the World Stadium Team, better known as Foster + Partners and HOK, had inserted into their appointment a clause giving them the right to use images of Wembley. Well, I did a bit of digging. So great was the urgency at the time to sign everyone up and so great was the complexity of the Wembley contracts that transit vans were hired to transport them between lawyers. I can only guess that this small but potentially lucrative or damaging clause (depending on which side you were on) might have escaped beady legal eyes.
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