2004.06.14

The Imperial Institute

The Imperial Institute
Once upon a time, in the place of the ‘South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London’ stood an architectural masterpiece known as ‘The Imperial Institute’. A small, yet quite revealing, sample of that work still remains in the form of the 85 metre Queen’s Tower, rising high above the ‘backyard’ of Imperial College, currently a campus characterised by cheap construction, lack of æsthetics and lots of concrete, steel and glass, and an increasingly annoying corporate identity.
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