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+  From: Architexturez <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:59:20 +0530
Sandy Wilson, or more properly Professor Sir Colin St John Wilson, who has just died, will always be remembered as the architect of the British Library. Likened to a "secret police headquarters" by the Prince of Wales - it is nothing of the sort, assuming, indeed, that there is a recognisable style for secret police headquarters - the library occupied Wilson's attentions for 35 years.

cont'd....
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/05/colin_st_john_wilson_19222007.html


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