Why do we create grand spaces

By Charles Saumarez Smith, Charles Saumarez Smith Charles Saumarez Smith 2006-10-27T00:00:00

I am, not surprisingly, interested in the design of public buildings, sitting as I do in an office in the National Gallery overlooking the new public space of Trafalgar Square now transformed from a torrent of double-decker buses into an open, more continental plaza.

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