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Rowan MooreThe Guardian |
I’ve been living partly in Sheffield for the past month or so, which has given me the chance to catch up on some of the great monuments of industry...
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Minster Court, a pink granite-and-marble neo-gothic office block in the City of London, a work of 1980s excess sometimes known as Monster Court or...
I only recently learned, on a trip to Barcelona, that a large part of the money for Antoni Gaudí’s glorious buildings came from slavery in Cuba, in...
The leaves are starting to change and there’s autumnal coolth in the air. Which means that the opaquely funded private organisation called Restore...
In 2008, Philip Heath, a technical manager for the insulation manufacturers Kingspan, circulated an email about some contractors who had questioned...
Last month I was privileged to arrive in County Cork, decked out in the red and white colours of its hurling team, the day before they played Clare...
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Someone should write a musical about Bess of Hardwick, the Elizabethan aristocrat who got fabulously rich through her astute dealings in mining,...