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# Alsop's Drop
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2004/10/alsops_drop/
- Published: 2004-10-29T11:59:49.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:02:22.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

[Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Risk-taking architect bailed out after projects founder](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk%5Fnews/story/0,,1338681,00.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Risk-taking architect bailed out after projects founder"):

> Alsop Architects, one of Britain’s most colourful and internationally renowned practices, has been forced into receivership by a financial crisis.
> 
> Directors of the practice headed by the outspoken architect and artist Will Alsop have sold 40% of the business to R Capital, a London-based firm of venture capitalists, as part of a rescue plan after a string of dramatic and costly projects worldwide came to nothing, according to a report in today’s Building Design magazine.

Designing [large boiled sweets](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3907541.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) clearly isn’t as profitable as it once was.