Building Design reports on a campaign to save Inner Court, Old Church Street (Chelsea) from demolition. The proposal, to make way for a luxury residential development by Foster & Partners, has been turned down twice, but was recently resubmitted. Inner Court dates back to the early 1970s, and is an important modernist example of the period. Architect Joseph Rykwert, a Royal Gold Medal nominee who counts Daniel Libeskind among his former students, still lives in London. The Rat and Mouse values London's 20th Century architecture. If you do, too, you can join a campaign to have the building listed by contacting the 20th Century Society, or you can write directly to Nina Wahlberg, South East Team, English Heritage, 1 Waterhouse Square, 138-142 Holborn, London EC1 2ST.
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I have already written to Nina Wahlberg cc Foster and Partners and directly to Sir Norman Foster
The issues are self evident. I did not believe it possible for an architect of Foster's calibre to promote a development with such callous disregard for a previous generation's architectural vision, albeit that of another architect, and in hindsight one which achieves more than Foster's indulgent efforts
Would Foster be quite so ruthless had one of his own buildings been occupying the same site?
I doubt it
sincerely
William Hemmings
