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People in Glass Houses

Building Design February 24, 2012

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Any issue that brings Ken Shuttleworth and Prince Charles together deserves a second look. Last year, when Ken Shuttleworth said that it was time to stop designing inefficient glass boxes, and that people should accept “a solid wall with a window in,” people focused on the press identifying him as the main designer of the Gherkin.

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© 2019 Henry Eric Dittmar

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Dittmar, H. (2019). People in Glass Houses. In: My Kind of City. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-64283-037-8_8

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