[useless_foghorn]

The columns: https://atlive-wp.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uplo...

[tobyjsullivan]

I think it's two of the five columns on the right in this image: https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6352/6dc1/66b7/442f/b...

Note that they are absent from this render: https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6352/6d02/da69/b45e/2...

> located on the ground floor near the former cloakroom, halfway between the street entrance and the stairs and lift leading down to the basement. Three adjacent structural columns have needed to be retained.

[RIMR]

That first link is spot on. Looking at the third image in the article, they are standing next to the destroyed column, and it is clearly one of the columns you indicated.

https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/0a733d1463e...

[adastra22]

Why would the architect want those columns to be there? It makes absolutely no sense.

[dwighttk]

Oh wow (having never been to the museum) I was picturing much classier looking columns. Those are terrible and Lord Sainsbury was absolutely correct.

[fourteenfour]

Ha, was looking for this, just read 3 articles about these columns without a picture of the layout. Resorted to a video tour, are you sure it wasn't the larger ones here? https://imgbox.com/nh1Wx8JF

[useless_foghorn]

That would make more sense! I was misreading this article: https://architecturetoday.co.uk/learning-from-venturi-scott-...

Thanks for the correction!

[Suppafly]

which of those are the 'two large columns in the foyer'?

[Reason077]

No, that's up on the first floor. The "unnecessary columns" were the ones in the foyer on the ground floor.

[Simon_ORourke]

The guy was right, but as a donor surely someone there could have just instructed the architect not to add them in.

Here on one side of the argument is a rich guy who's giving you millions, and on the other a glorified hired hand who's looking to be expressive or whatever. Money talks, usually, I'm surprised how the architect got away with this one back in the day.

[ArchitectAnon]

If you hire a world famous architect and then start micromanaging their design they will walk away from the project and publicly tell everyone it’s going to be shit. They don’t want to be associated with something that is not their design; it’s bad for their brand.