Bankable names

Nouvel’s Serpentine design.

Jean Nouvel’s design for this year’s Serpentine pavilion (News March 26) is only the most recent of the series of pavilions designed by established, older and bankable architects who clearly rarely have the time to pay proper attention to the project (I except the brilliant Sanaa)

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