Villa La Coste), this is also the site of Richard Rogers’ last building: a gallery, dedicated to exhibiting drawings, that seems to defy gravity as it cantilevers off the top of a hill.The project, that had first been discussed over ten years ago, was completed this spring. “It was one of my life-long dreams to have my friend Richard do something at La Coste,” says Paddy McKillen, the hotelier behind Claridge's, the Connaught and the Berkeley, who began to develop the estate – with buildings dating back to 1682 – from 2001. “What he has created is beyond anyone’s imagination.
It is staggeringly beautiful.”Indeed, the brilliant orange structure which dangles off the hill is a gallery like no other, and glimpses of it flash into view from.
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