Please send letters for the website, clearly marked FORUM, to Julia Dawson at: julia.dawson@emap.com or The Architectural Review, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ, England. BRUNSWICK SHOWS ITS TRUE COLOURS SIR: Patrick Hodgkinson’s Brunswick Centre (AR March 2007) has indeed regained visibility and shows its new colours, in the pages of your magazine, in London, everywhere. However, the article about the metamorphosis of this 'unloved colossus' deals largely with one issue – a loss of tenant satisfaction from a past of positive enthusiasm ('I loved every minute of being there'). Now that the shopping is upmarket there is reservation about the change, even the suggestion that the old residents might prefer it to relapse to its 'former state of decayed majesty', so we are told. Not to slight it, tenants' needs in the face of decay is the same crucial intense local issue for all projects, the good, the ordinary, the mediocre. But this is the revival of a great and unique building with a public presence and role, and tenants' local  shopping needs seem a curious issue on which to focus. The tone of the other criticisms is largely belittling – 'a cosmetic job', glare and indispensable sunglasses, etc. It was the first large central urban project to eschew free-standing block typology for an integrated contextual form responding to its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century neighbourhood by an amazing continuous section maintaining and enhancing the street; it is Modernism without a trace of pastiche, achieved with breathtaking accomplishment and that sharp originality which seems to invent the normal. It was prescient, though not much has lived up to it since. Thanks to the cooperation of the developer, Levitt Bernstein and Hodgkinson (not without conflict), it now not only looks wonderful for residents and passers-by alike but its public interior street is humming with life, including the commercial life essential for survival. A resurrection indeed! And as Hodgkinson says, 'there is more to come'. The Brunswick also shows now by example what restoration of the new can achieve. There is much to be said. The article seems a missed opportunity – something of a cop-out. Yours etc NEAVE BROWN