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Yes, the architects have been partly responsible, not least in proposing some ridiculous solutions to the brief, but and its a real big but, the brief was clearly inappropriate and a weak and over enthusiastic and inexperienced client charged ahead more filled with dreams than should have been possible. Clients have a responsibility to ensure that they buy in experience when they dont have it, and appointing a top artiste without the necessary hard nosed checks and balances is a recipe for overspend and quite possibly disaster, which it sounds like this place verges on.

By the by these comments apply to virtually the whole BSF and Academy process as mismanaged in the past. I doubt the new coalition will do any better as the public servants (not so civil these days!) are as out of their depth in procurement of construction projects as they ever were.