Herzog And De Meuron
Publisher: Carlton Books
Published: October 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781842226742
Subjects: Architectural structure & design; Individual architects; Architecture; Architectural Firms; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture / General; Architecture/Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings
First sentence: On a sparkling winter morning late in 2001, the Swiss architect Jacques Herzog tucked the trouser legs of his immaculately tailored dark blue suit into a pair of somewhat too large Wellington boots, covered his long, closely shaven head with a hard hat and strode onto a muddy building site in the depths of one of London's poorer neighbourhoods to show a group of expectant journalists around what, even before it was finished, critics were confidently proclaiming one of the more astonishing modern buildings in Britain.