Developers won't spend money on the best architects if the results are later trashed

Buckley Gray Yeoman's No1 Poultry proposal looking east down Queen Victoria Street

We used to think we could ‘improve’ old masters. What makes us think buildings are any less precious, asks the man behind Terry Farrell’s 76 Fenchurch Street

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