The fuss, in recent months, has been all about the British Museum’s use of the wrong kind of stone for its new portico. “Yet now the scaffolding has been removed, it is evident that the critics have simply latched on to one mistake and failed to perceive the greater glory of the whole. Norman Foster’s treatment of the Great Court wonderfully ennobles the austere Greek Revival architecture of Sir Robert Smirke.” – The Times (UK)