Colchester slips up on Viñoly’s golden banana

By Oliver Wainwright2011-09-22T12:00:00

Source: Richard Bryant/Arcaid

There are many reasons not to like Rafael Viñoly’s Colchester Firstsite, which finally opens this week, four years late and, at £28 million, costing almost twice its original budget.

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