“When first I saw this spectacular building, I was immensely gratified that I had been invited to declare it open. I consider it to be one of the major architectural landmarks of this latter part of the 20th century in Barbados and in the Caribbean, and I am sure that it will be a credit to Barbados for hundreds of years. This building is of course much smaller than the run of the mill skyscrapers going up all over the world, whose architects balance matchboxes to effect a design and look only to the use of materials to achieve distinction from 10,000 others. This structure is an example of what we can do on our necessarily smaller scales, by applying thought and imagination to the visual creative genius given to just a few of us, even fewer of whom practice as architects in small countries.”