● MANY YEARS AGO, I WAS INVITED to be on the jury to choose an architect to design the museum in Wakefield which became Hepworth Wakefield. From what I remember of this process, we were confronted by a vast number of proposals by architectural practices from all over the world (designing a new museum from scratch is what every architect wants to do).
By the time the jury arrived, entries had already been sifted into categories of those we were encouraged to pay close attention to and those we