English Architecture Was Multi-Culti Before Multi-Culti Was Cool
"Nowadays, a Norman Foster building in Hong Kong looks just like a Norman Foster building in Canary Wharf - neither British nor Chinese, just nationless steel and glass in both places. […] We were much more open to influences from abroad two centuries ago, taking styles from all round the world and modifying them to suit our cool home climate." New Statesman 10/16/08

Posted October 21, 2008 09:07 PM