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Former RIBA president blasts AHMM project

By 2020-05-05T13:13:00

AHMM Waterfront Place Bristol - view from Millennium Square

George Ferguson brands Waterfront building ‘a bloody disgrace’

A former president of the RIBA and mayor of Bristol has made an outspoken attack on AHMM and its proposals for a landmark building on the city’s waterfront.

George Ferguson dubbed the Stirling Prize winner’s seven-storye hotel and office building “a bloody disgrace”.

“We saved Bristol’s very best city centre site for something special – not for another crass piece of commercial architecture,” he tweeted.

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