The architect behind the new Jack the Ripper museum in east London has said he was duped over the purpose of the project, after what was billed as a museum of women’s history became an attraction about Britain’s most notorious murderer of women. [...]
"We really ran with it. We did it at a bargain-basement fee, at cost price because we thought it was a great thing to do."
"You do rely on the moral fibre of your client but you should also be able to rely on the planning system"
— theguardian.com
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We did it at a bargain-basement fee...
Mmm, I savor this moment of schadenfreude.
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bullshit. these architects knew what they were doing, and what it was about.
Well, I understand, they could have been doing loads of money in residential work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjHo5BZM7V0&feature=share
this is interesting too given the present debate on the lack of diversity in big tech companies:
The museum’s founder, Mark Palmer-Edgcumbe, 47, a former head of diversity at Google, has maintained that he planned to open a museum about the social history of women, but that as the project developed he decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of the Ripper.
Awfully creepy.
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