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I don't have too much sympathy with Paul Hinkin's position. I realise that the building was his baby, but I disagree with his analysis that it will set-back the cause of sustainable design. If anything it could help. We may become more reluctant to design buildings that can only have one future use for one existing occupier. Buildings have to be reusable to be sustainable, and we need to reuse our existing building stock in clever ways. The new generation of young architects realise this though the last generation are still falling back on hyper-functional modernism in their design practice. I think that this is why this building has failed its first major examination.