Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners has revealed revised designs for its controversial extension to Colin Wilson and MJ Long’s grade I-listed British Library in Euston.

It also emerged that the schedule has slipped slightly because of the complexity of the project. A planning application was originally due to be submitted in May but the developer is now saying this will happen later in the summer. A spokesman said the plans were still broadly on track.

When the plans were first unveiled in February they sparked anger among architects and historians, with Patrick Lynch dubbing the designs a “third-rate wedge of nothing”.

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