Drawing comfort

2009-09-18T00:00:00

Reading the review of the Tricorn Centre book (Culture September 18) reminded me how whenever my retired-architect Dad and I discuss such “second-tier” brutalist megastructures where the architect’s megalomania coalesced with the developer’s (or council’s) delusions of grandeur, he damns them acerbically thus: “I’ll bet it looked fantastic on the ...

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