Seattle P-I Architecture Critic Quits Over Review

After Seattle Post-Intelligencer architecture critic Sheri Olson wrote a negative review of a local housing project, the architects threatened to sue. Olson – a freelancer – asked the paper to “guarantee that it would represent her should [the architects]decide to sue.” When the paper declined, Olson quit. Oddly, the architects – Weber + Thompson – didn’t dispute the quality of the building; rather, they maintain that “most of the changes… have been out of our control.”