Land Securities has submitted a planning application for the Architecture Foundation's new centre on Southwark Street designed by Zaha Hadid.
(From today's [London] Evening Standard, Late West End Edition, page 20)
Quote:Famed for her buildings including the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, US and the BMW building in Leipzig, Germany, the Architecture Foundation will be the Pritzker Prize winner's first public building to be built in the capital.
Scheduled to open in autumn 2008, the design of the building has evolved since Hadid won the international design competition run by Land Securities in January 2005.
The new diamond-like design, clad in polished stainless steel, will - claim developers - generate a striking new point of interest within the Bankside 123 development.
"It is time that London had a new centre for architecture, a place of energy and ideas, to rival those in other cities across the world," says Zaha Hadid.
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