The British Museum’s new Great Court portico has been getting raves from the critics. Except this one: “It is an inexcusable eyesore. At first glance it is so alien that to mistake it for some form of plastic substitute can be forgiven; at second glance, so clumsily are its blocks cut, so chipped their corners, so fudged and filled the junctions of the blocks and column drums that the material must be stone, the masons’ craft and workmanship unacceptably flawed. The fault is beyond remedy and chucking buckets of slurry at it – which might help in the open air – is not an option.” – London Evening Standard