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What a strange review. First it says "The possibility of extending the Cathedral Quarter’s language of robustly detailed brick facades has also proved of no interest" and then it says "r the immediate future the Mac’s largest frontage looks set to be a great cliff of unfenestrated brick. Specified in the chalky red variety that is typical of the warehouses and merchants’ houses of the Cathedral Quarter, this material predominates both inside and out the Mac, its robust detailing offering a rebuke to its neighbour’s effete scenography".

Make up your mind, whoever you are (there's no byline).

The fact that Lisa Fior of Muf said “someone’s going to think it was built in 1955" tells us a lot about Lisa Fior and her sense of what contemporary architecture should do. This is a first-class building that establishes Hackett Hall McKnight and is a good deal more substantial and complex than anything Muf has done.