"Torture is intended to cause shame, degradation, humiliation, and guilt. With the new centre, [we are] ... better placed both to assist the rehabilitation of those on whom torture is perpetrated, and attack the silence and complicity on which it thrives," said the foundation's director, Malcolm Stuart.
"From the beginning it was important to understand that this building was going to be receiving people who were in varying degrees of distress," said Paul Hyett, a former president of the Royal Institute of British Architects who chairs RyderHKS. "Much architecture is brutal and angular - even aggressive. We therefore had to guard against using shapes, or materials, with unpleasant connotations."
Mark Oliver/Guardian UK Jun.23.04
