Take a failed £72 million 'quirky unorthodox art centre' by Will Alsop. Shut it down after four years. Hire Bond Bryan to convert it to a school.(Really? Yes) So...

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The autopsy on The Public started before it was even a corpse. The £72 million project was the last of the cultural buildings delivered with Millennium Commission money, but before it had opened its doors, the writing was on the bright pink painted wall. Its original architect, Will Alsop, had left the job, replaced in 2004 by Flannery and de la Pole; the centre was in administration before the first paying customer stepped over the threshold four years later; and visitor number forecasts had been slashed from 500,000 a year to 100,000. The prophecies came true, the naysayers were proved right and Alsop's not-so- fun palace closed its doors on the 23 November 2013.