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Westminster savages Ellis Williams' Pimlico scheme

Westminster City councillors stunned Ellis Williams Architects last week by branding its scheme for a new Pimlico School reminiscent of the ‘outskirts of Warsaw’ and ‘Minimalist rubbish’. They delivered the ‘pathfinder’ pfi initiative to demolish and rebuild the 1970 school plus 169 luxury flats a serious and costly blow by overturning the planners and demanding a total redesign.

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