The National Capital Planning Commission, in another striking reversal, voted 9 to 2 to approve the elegant glass canopy designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Norman Foster to cover the courtyard of the historic Old Patent Office Building. Kathryn Gustafson was hired for courtyard landscape design. Read | via
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This is, in my opinion, good news, although it screams of the wonderful red tape that is omnipresent in our wonderful bureaucratic system. I have visited the British Museum with its Foster roof over the courtyard and I was visually stunned by both the flow of the structure and the stimulating use of natural light. The commission has made an excellent decision.
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