Archinect - News 2024-11-16T04:59:30-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/52506009/its-style-is-amnesiac-classical Its style is amnesiac classical Nam Henderson 2012-06-26T23:09:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/xy/xy4w273cl2jxsgeu.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>It is a hard subject to memorialise &ndash; to recognise at once the courage and loss of airmen, and the awfulness of the thing they were told to do &ndash; the more so as the debate will never end as to whether bombing civilian targets was then the best or only available way of speeding the defeat of the Nazis.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Rowan Moore reviews that RAF's Bomber Command memorial in Green Park, London. The memorial he reports has none of the nuance or complexity one might hope for. The mix of&nbsp;classicism and lack of historical reflection results in a project which leaves Mr. Moore thinking there could have been "<strong>better ways than this</strong>".</p>