Archinect - News2024-11-16T04:59:30-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/52506009/its-style-is-amnesiac-classical
Its style is amnesiac classical Nam Henderson2012-06-26T23:09:00-04:00>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 – to recognise at once the courage and loss of airmen, and the awfulness of the thing they were told to do – 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 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>