Will Alsop | Features

Annus horribilis: Alsop’s year
May 2004	Forced to revise designs for Fourth Grace to meet planning concerns
July	Liverpool Vision and Liverpool council scrap Fourth Grace plans
	Alsop Architects closes its Rotterdam office
September	Fourteen staff leave in one week
October	Managing director James Allen and design director Christophe Egret leave the firm, Alsop Architects goes into receivership and 40% of the practice is sold to venture capitalist R Capital
November	Dave West, director in charge of masterplanning and urban design, leaves
December	Council inquiry finds lack of public leadership to blame for collapse of Fourth Grace project
January 2005	SuperCity exhibition opens
April	Reg Marsh appointed managing director