Program - A cultural center to be made up of four major specialist activities:
Museum of Modern Art; a reference library; a center for music and acoustic research; plus supporting services such as car park, restaurant etc.
 
 

"'A live center of information, entertainment and culture' - the buliding to be both a flexible container and a dynamic communication machine, highly serviced and made from prefabricated pieces, aimed at attracting as wide a public as possible by cutting across the traditional cultural-institutional limits.

The building is a well serviced shed that consists of superimposed uniform spaces supported externally by a freestanding structural frame, the whole capable of change in plan, section and elevation, so as to absorb the unforeseen.  An ever changing framework, a meccano kit, a climbing frame for the old and the young, for the amateur and the specialist, so that the free and changing performance becomes as much an expression of the architecture as the building itself.
 
 

It is the belief that buildings should be able to change, not only in plan but in section and elevation.  A framework which allows people freedom to do their own things; the order, scale and grain coming from a clear understanding and expression of the process of building, the optimisation of each individual element, its system of manufacture, storage, transportation, erection and connection, all within a clearly defined and rational framework.  The framework must allow people to perform freely inside and out, to change and adapt, in answer to technical and client needs.  This free and changing performance becomes an expression of the architecture of the building, a giant ever changing meccano set rather than a traditional static doll's house with it cosmetic non additive shop-fitting detailing."