In Reply to: ArchWeek - Postcard from Bath posted by Kevin Matthews on April 10, 2002 at 20:55:54:
This is a highly contextual project, but the images shown fail to provide sufficient information about the fit of the new form into the existing context. My concern, given what is shown on the linked image, is the predictable modernist obsession with making an assertive OBJECT. Why the convex shape bulging into the space in fromt of the landmark building? This is a figural space, and the architect is determined to oppose it with a figual object.
Perhaps this is why Colin Rowe left England--insensitivity to urban context. But no, we remember Gordon Cullen, who was the paragon of townscape. Has he no progeny in Britain?