• Architect Nigel Coates: ‘I like spaces that made you wonder. I was trying to softly seduce people’

    Architect Nigel Coates: ‘I like spaces that made you wonder. I was trying to softly seduce people’
    His singular works, once considered unbuildable, now seem boldly intelligent. The architect says his struggles as a gay man armed him with a courage to break all the rules“At a certain point,” says the architect and designer Nigel Coates, “you have to ask yourself what makes a city worth living in.” It’s a question he’s been pursuing for half a century and more, with designs ranging in scale from stools and vases to sweeping visions for vast swaths of London,

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