Architecture Update: Indian summons

Amanda Baillieu
Wednesday 23 February 1994 00:02 GMT
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QUINLAN TERRY has been summoned to design a hotel near the Taj Mahal, Agra. Mr Terry, whose work includes the Richmond Riverside development on the Thames in Surrey and the new library for Downing College, Cambridge, says: 'When you spend your life doing the Great Tradition (Classical architecture), designing an Islamic Indian building is like falling off a log.'

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