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4th December 2008
LONDON

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Overrated

Norman Foster

DAVID WATKIN

Foster's buildings might better suit the sky than the earth, where ordinary mortals live

Underrated

Quinlan Terry

DAVID WATKIN

As a student Terry was told he would fail if he continued to submit any more classical designs



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