ABSTRACT
It is diffi cult to know exactly what Whitfi eld’s contribution has been — apart, that is, from his own neo-fascist styled building (which is actually not so bad, but very oddly scaled, especially when facing St. Paul’s), and the 23m. high central column with nothing much to celebrate except the end of a dogged project history. Perhaps it doesn’t matter, but one has to see this development and compare it with Broadgate and Canary Wharf, as the other two obvious developments with which it must bear comparison. (Also, perhaps, Spitalfi elds and Merrill Lynch.) These are all unhappy beasts, demonstrating a speculative capitalist imperative which, in the case of Paternoster, met sentiment head on. The view down onto the rooftops from St. Paul’s is dispiriting and, on the ground, the various colonnades all induce groans of disturbance (on the northern boundary they are
• Christ Church Court : Rolfe Judd t: i
• St. Martin’s Court: Allies & Morrison r fi l it i
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The central column, with MacCormac Jamieson Prichard behind.
