10 Membranes

New US Embassy: For once I don’t agree with Richard Rogers, who thinks this design sucks. I don’t think it’s too bad, especially given the pure awfulness of the new US Embassy in Berlin. This is a part of London ripe for regeneration and the surrounding masterplan looks decent, if not stonkingly world beating. Unfortunately that is the norm for London office developments, but it does mean we miss out on some horrors. Talking of which I still can’t work out whether Piano’s Central St. Giles is a diamond or a turd…