Will Alsop proposed turning Barnsley into a Tuscan hill town, flooding the centre of Bradford with a huge lake and adorning Middlesbrough with towers in the shape of Prada skirts. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Will Alsop’s award-winning Peckham Library caught the millennial zeitgeist and changed the idea of what a 21st-century library could be. “Architects are the only profession that actually deal in joy and delight,” said Alsop. Photograph: David Levene for the GuardianIn 2009 Alsop made the dramatic announcement that he was retiring from architecture “to concentrate on painting”, but it was merely another media-savvy ruse. • William Allen Alsop, architect, born 12 December 1947; died 12 May 2018

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2018 18:56 UTC