I took Ricky Burdett and David Rosen round Burlington Gardens. Both have been closely involved with the project at different stages – Ricky as a member of the jury in the first competition in 1996, won by Michael and Patty Hopkins, but with David Chipperfield as close runner-up; David Rosen who was responsible for leasing the ground floor gallery space to Pace. Ricky’s comment was how unforced it feels as a project, using the existing spaces and enhancing their characteristics, rather than trying to impose new uses on them. I have never seen David Chipperfield’s entry to the 1998 competition and have often wondered how far it informed the intelligent confidence of his entry to the third and final 2008 competition ten years later:-
Very good to have the history of the competition for Burlington Gardens. How different were Michael Hopkins’s designs to David Chipperfield’s ?
There was a glass atrium between the two buildings which involved the demolition of the studios at the back of the Schools. Charles