Ad hoc in the docks

The authors demonstrates the dreary results of redeveloping london's docklands without planning, comparing their unique architecture and function in the past to the incoherent renewal operations after world war ii and the present state. Pages 38-50 illustrate entries of the ar/heuga ideas competition for a museum of london's docklands, conceived as a challenge to convert a vast disused warehouse of the royal victoria dock. Numerous photographs, sketches and plans.