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The panel – i.e. Duffy, Zogolovitch and Fannon – were grateful to the team for the effort put into responding to concerns expressed on 10 October. However, as the discussion developed, they became increasingly concerned about whether enough architectural design resources were available, even given the reinforced team, to cope, within the available design time and with the design stakes so high and so visible, with achieving: 1. an appropriate level of design excellence; 2. the technical performance that will be required; 3. the resolution of elements within the 15m retail facades with other elements above such as the blind leisure boxes and the car parking on the roof;


4. getting the best out of the limited number of sophisticated cladding suppliers available especially at the international scale;


5. the vast scale and complexity of accommodating specific functions as well as of specification and delivery while maintaining a coherent architectural expression; These concerns were reinforced when Alex Lifschutz joined the panel immediately after the meeting.


John Fannon, on behalf of LB Newham, concurred with this advice.


Consequently the following note was sent to Simon Cochrane and David Leonard shortly after the panel meeting:


We very much appreciate the work that you and David have done on the Zone 1 shopping centre elevations. This work seems to us to be very intelligent and going in the right direction. However, it also has highlighted the huge importance of these elevations to the success of the Westfield project as a whole – how big they are, how visible and how hugely dependent on what Roger called the materiality of the elements that they will be constructed out of. In other words the wrong specification will guarantee an architectural disaster on a very large scale.


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