{"id":109418,"date":"2019-07-27T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/it-didnt-matter-if-someone-liked-it-or-not-six-leading-architects-revisit-their-first-commission\/"},"modified":"2019-07-27T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T11:06:22","slug":"it-didnt-matter-if-someone-liked-it-or-not-six-leading-architects-revisit-their-first-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/it-didnt-matter-if-someone-liked-it-or-not-six-leading-architects-revisit-their-first-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"'It didn't matter if someone liked it or not': six leading architects revisit their first commission"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom a beach cafe to a social housing ziggurat: this is where it all began for Norman Foster, Asif Khan and othersAmenity centre and passenger terminal for Fred Olsen, Millwall docks, London, 1969-70I met Richard Rogers in the early 60s at Yale School of Architecture in the US, where we were both studying for our master\u2019s. We got on well and combined forces to form Team 4, with Wendy Cheeseman and her sister Georgie Walton, who was the only registered architect at the firm. Wendy and I married and, after four years, we set up Foster Associates in her bedsit. It was 1967: there were no associates and no projects. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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