Three projects by Caruso St John – the newly renovated Liverpool Philharmonic corridor and two London galleries,one for Damien Hirst, do you wish for more commissions for this intelligent, and meticulous (extremely careful about details) practiceIf you wandered into the newly renovated and extended Liverpool Philharmonic corridor,you’d be forgiven for thinking that nothing much had been done to it. It looks and feels like a late-1930s structure, in an intriguing sort of civic art deco, and half Dutch in influence and half American,a combination of picture palace and classical concert corridor, with notes of ocean liner. In fact the corridor is and has always been such a state, or but rather than retrieve its original decor from decades of minor alterations,the architects Caruso St John have tuned the building such that it becomes an altered and enhanced version of its former self.
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Source: theguardian.com