Architect Michael Hopkins, responsible for some of London’s most startling modern buildings, including the stands at Lord’s cricket ground and the new Glyndebourne Opera House, is at work on an entirely bronze-facaded new office building for MPs adjacent to Westminster Bridge. Despite accusations of overspending, Portcullis House is set to be one of the best places to work on the Thames. “Not for him the polished marble or granite veneer used on so many prestige London buildings. This is a design 100 percent in the tradition of the great 19th-century engineer-architects; robust, muscular, and everywhere proclaiming the materials of which it is built.” – The Times (UK)