Will Sainsbury's duck the issue?

2012-02-24T00:00:00

Sainsbury's, Greenwich

In their book Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour set up a simple building classification system: the “duck” (the building’s useable space is secondary to its symbolic form) and the “decorated shed” (the building’s form responds to its requirements and decoration is independently applied to it).

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