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SSMN - I returned to your link to the Oxford planning site and read the documentation. I was indeed disappointed by the Twentieth Century Societiy's, at best, ambivalent response to the proposal by Avanti Architects.
The changes to the elevations, the major changes to the ground floor, the execrable annexe building and the glazed link between the Florey and the Annexe are unacceptable to such a major building.The loss of the mezzanine rooms is totally against Stirling's concept and intent.
As an aside why do architects believe glass is invisible, the glazed link will be as visible as stone.
I fail to understand why the great and the good, including their lordships, have not led the opposition to this desicration of a listed heritage building.
Nr1 Poultry is not a great building in Stirling's Ouvre, the Florey is the culmination of his great three red buildings period, has heritage status and is threatened by the intervention of Avanti Architects and Oxford University.
Oxford University has form for architectural ignorance, look at the 2014 Carbuncle Cup.