As always with Piers Gough, his buildings miss the mark. He just hasn't the skill to enrich such simple idea work. The Nottingham building doesn't know whether it's a constructivist collage of four cut out's, or a box with flying buttresses. It's not radical enough to push the language. It's not traditional enough to be familiar. It is, in fact, whimsical, in a 'Festival of Britain' style: more a child of the 1950's, than the 60's.

I'm a professional architectural photographer and have noticed that in recent years, acknowledgement of our work in the form of a credit, seems to be over looked? Either subsumed by the architects copyright, or not credited at all. Instead, non professional or new-comers are gaining headline status, with sub standard work (please see the follow up article to this one). There needs to be more recognition of the value and importance that high quality photography brings to the profession, as this is after all the only representation that many people will ever see of the building. If not, we will see ourselves sleep walking into lower and lower pictorial standards whilst losing the best talents available, because their offering is undermined in this way.