Tuesday, February 06, 2007

New Walkers Office Building

Offshore & Local Law firm WALKERS announced its new office building recently and initial reviews by some in the local Architectural community have been critical, not only of the design but the fact that the firm went overseas to London based firms for services.

The design, which appears to be a warped or bent ( 'chamfered' )seven storey box with diagonal structural or 'aesthetic' members across its face, does not seem to be suitable for an island in the Caribbean. The face is puntuated by various rectangular windows giving an appearance of a crumpled computer programming card from the seventies. The building will contain a full height atrium to allow light to all internal spaces.

In the past the Planning Department and the Central Planning Authority have attempted to have building design make refrence to "local Design". That now appears to have gone aside and Pandoras box has been opened with this latest design.

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