Museum Kerfuffle Envelopes Bath

A controversial new museum extension in the UK city of Bath has residents and architecture buffs in an uproar. “The fact that the scheme contravenes the one sine qua non of building in Bath – all projects have to be in Bath stone – has proved a particular source of outrage to its opponents. The material homogeneity of Bath’s architecture is undoubtedly one of the city’s great glories, and should not be sacrificed lightly.”