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‘Ziggurats for Bureaucrats’: Sir Leslie Martin’s Whitehall Plan


Ian Rice a1
a1 The Architectural Heritage Fund, Clareville House, 26/27 Oxendon Street, London, SW1Y 4EL, UK, 020 7925 0199; ian.rice@ahfund.org.uk

Abstract

Leslie Martin’s ill-fated plan for a cohesive Government Centre assumes new relevance as growing traffic and the declining role of Parliament highlight Whitehall’s continuing problems.

(Published Online December 8 2005)