+ From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+ Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:51:15 +0530
Westminster council votes to demolish Pimlico School
14 December 2007
By Will Hurst, Helen Crump
Last ditch attempt by Rogers, Prasad and Bayley fails to save Bancroft’s Pimlico School
Westminster Council will demolish the acclaimed Pimlico School, despite last-ditch appeals to save it this week by three of British architecture’s best known figures.
The council’s planning committee voted unanimously on Thursday evening to grant planning to a replacement school building by Architecture PLB under the Building Schools for the Future programme, against last minute appeals by Richard Rogers, RIBA president Sunand Prasad and Observer architecture critic Stephen Bayley, who have heaped praise on the 1970 John Bancroft-designed original.
The decision also went against the advice of Cabe, which has judged the Architecture PLB design not fit for purpose alongside scores of other early BSF designs (News November 30).
cont'd....
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3102274&c=1&encCode=0000000001413fb4
14 December 2007
By Will Hurst, Helen Crump
Last ditch attempt by Rogers, Prasad and Bayley fails to save Bancroft’s Pimlico School
Westminster Council will demolish the acclaimed Pimlico School, despite last-ditch appeals to save it this week by three of British architecture’s best known figures.
The council’s planning committee voted unanimously on Thursday evening to grant planning to a replacement school building by Architecture PLB under the Building Schools for the Future programme, against last minute appeals by Richard Rogers, RIBA president Sunand Prasad and Observer architecture critic Stephen Bayley, who have heaped praise on the 1970 John Bancroft-designed original.
The decision also went against the advice of Cabe, which has judged the Architecture PLB design not fit for purpose alongside scores of other early BSF designs (News November 30).
cont'd....
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3102274&c=1&encCode=0000000001413fb4
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