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List of figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction The architectural context The Big Bang context The research context Overarching themes and case studies 2. The project narrative Peter Palumbo: Inheritance and identity The Mies scheme unveiled Mies in a changed world Militant conservationists The nation’s best known architectural critic The theology of the New Right The Stirling version Conclusion 3. The project narrative Another Pompidou? Modernism compromised? In dialogue with history Building and context Building and users Public face, private world The building and Lloyd’s trauma Icon of the age Conclusion 4. The project narrative Reconnecting with the past Holford, Pevsner and their legacy Prince Charles and his public Style wars resumed A test case for classicism Conclusion 5. The project narrative Mega-project, enlightened developer New offices for a new City Private sector placemaking Theatre of Big Bang Globalised architecture for globalising clients Broadgate and its neighbours A monument to the era Conclusion 6. Conclusion and afterword Bibliography Index |