The scheme is slated to cost nearly £300 million and is London's volley in an intercontinental game of high culture one-upmanship, which in recent years has produced Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Jean Nouvel's Philharmonie in Paris. This arms race for cultural dominion has, in London however, reached new levels of absurdity with the decision […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM on March 15, 2019