Let's learn a new civic language

Employment Academy, Camberwell, by Peter Barber Architects

Source: Morley Von Sternberg

Ellis Woodman touches on something very important in his review of Peter Barber’s extension to ET Hall’s Poor Law Guardians’ Office (Buildings September 20), when he talks about its “sense of civic decorum”.

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