Pritzker Prize-winning Rogers criticises modern British buildings

Richard Rogers, who has won this year’s Pritzker Prize, has attacked Britain’s modern buildings for not been as good as those constructed in Georgian England. Lord Rogers said the battle was to get cities as a whole up to the standards that Georgian cities used to be at with tree-lined avenues, “wonderful squares and great windows overlooking garden areas”. He said its was “pretty disappointing” to see the “basic stuff” built in the Thames Gateway “on one of the most beautiful rivers in the world”. 29/03/07 Times 40; Guardian 7, 40