The controversy that plagued the British Museum every step of its redesign – including the public outcry over its use of the wrong kind of stone in its new $97 million portico – seems to have finally subsided. “To visitors to the Great Court, this storm in a wine goblet will mean little if anything. In 10 years, few will know or care what all the fuss was for. What they will know, instead, is one of the most extraordinary covered squares to be found in any city, ancient or modern. – The Guardian