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Google News: Fans of modernism, look away
[Financial Times] - By Edwin Heathcote If you're fond of Modernist architecture, now is not a happy time in the UK. Fine modernist buildings around London are being destroyed to make way for bigger, more efficient and sustainable – and less interesting – architecture.
Google News: Slideshow: The new architecture of commercial buildings
[Financial Times] - By Edwin Heathcote The commercial architecture that is currently replacing the office buildings of the immediate post-war era can look intriguingly similar to those it has displaced. It will probably feature bigger floor plates – based on a financial
Built to last?
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[Financial Times] - By Edwin Heathcote I've just upgraded from an 84-year to a 999-year lease on my apartment. To put that in historical context imagine my London mansion block had been built by the Saxons during the reign of Ethelred the Unready – we'd now be at the end
Good intentions
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[Financial Times] - By Edwin Heathcote The last time London hosted the Olympics, in 1948, the athletes were housed in former military hospitals and prisoner-of-war camps, student halls and a bunch of tents in Richmond Park. This year the athletes will find
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