The Telegraph included a piece by jury member Ellis Woodman which stated:
Yet give us tedium any day over the witless antics of the runner-up. Make Architects’ expansion of the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus incorporates a pair of buildings so wildly aggressive (they look like enormous Sherman tanks), blazingly camp (they are clad in lurid pink terracotta tiles) and punishingly inane as to leave one trembling. To top it all off they have contributed a 60-metre tower, billed as the tallest free-standing sculpture in the UK, that goes by the revealingly vacuous name of Aspire.Did the judges know that locally Aspire is referred to as the largest and most useless waste paper basket ever?
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I enjoyed reading the RIBA link from the Telegraph quote. The author clearly thought the buildings sucked but had to content her/himself with damning with non-existent praise, e.g. that Nottingham University has gained three "distinctive" buildings. Marvellous.
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