Stonehenge plans criticised by watchdog

Monday 8th February 2010

Its footpaths are "tortuous", the roof likely to "channel wind and rain" and its myriad columns - meant to evoke a forest - are incongruous with the vast landscape surrounding it.

So says the government's design watchdog over plans for a controversial £20m visitor centre at Stonehenge, the megalithic jewel in England's cultural crown. CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, has criticised the design of the proposed centre, claiming the futuristic building by Denton Corker Marshall does little to enhance the 5,000-year-old standing stones which attract more than 800,000 visitors each year.

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