“The 71-year-old designer behind the spacecraft-like media centre at Lord’s cricket ground in London and the curvaceous, sequin-clad Selfridges in Birmingham collapsed in Prague last night. The Czech-born architect’s octopus-shaped design for a new national library in Prague had won an international competition but failed to gain acceptance among Czech politicians… [and he] had been fighting hard to win support for what he hoped would be the ‘grand finale’ to his career.”