This week on Dezeen: Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas took a swipe at campaigners advocating Britain's exit from the European Union this week, while a proposal to replace Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge design was tabled (pictured).
Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge proposal
Architecture firm Allies and Morrison proposed planting trees on an existing bridge in London as a cheaper solution than Heatherwick's £175 million Garden Bridge design (pictured above). Brexit campaigners are fighting for an England that doesn't exist, says Rem Koolhaas
In the same week as 90 per cent of British fashion designers said they will vote to remain in the European Union, OMA founder Rem Koolhaas ? who studied and taught in the UK in the 1960s and 70s ? said that membership had benefited Britain over the years, before warning that the Leave campaigners were promoting an idealised view of England that never existed.
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