斯特林已多年没有在自己的本土上留下作品了。然而,也正是这些年,他的作品遍布欧美大陆,他也随之由一名普通的建筑师跃迁为国际知各的建筑大师。也许人们出于对这一戏剧性事件的兴趣,1987年春斯特林在伦敦家乡设计的泰特美术馆(Tate Gallery)科劳新馆(CloveGallery)一开放,就吸引了泰特美术馆有史以来最多的观众。许多建筑杂志纷纷对它作报道或评论。虽然这座建筑很小,却引起了激烈的争论,建筑评论家们对它褒贬不一。面对这种局面,斯特林胸有成竹地 Sterling has not left his work on his own country for many years. However, it is also in these years that his works have spread across Europe and the United States, and he has also been transformed by an ordinary architect into an international master architect. Perhaps due to people’s interest in this dramatic event, the opening of Sterling’s Tate Gallery’s new Clove Gallery in London in 1987 attracted the largest number of Tate galleries ever Audience. Many architectural magazines have reported or commented on it. Although this building is small, it has caused fierce debates, and construction critics have mixed it. In the face of this situation, Sterling is confident