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• Burrell Collection reopening: a great Glasgow one-off becomes just a little less extraordinary

  13-02-2022 12:00
  
  Pollok Country Park, Glasgow
  After a five-year, £68m renovation, this prized 1970s building housing a great art collection is now more spacious and visitor-friendly – but at what cost to its original design?The Burrell Collection is majestic and abundant, a rich man’s hoard of 9,000 objects, industrial wealth transmogrified into Chinese porcelain and medieval stained glass, paintings by French impressionists and Scottish colourists, Persian carpets, suits of armour, Roman and E
  
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• Why the Holocaust learning centre is set for the wrong location | Rowan Moore

  13-02-2022 10:30
  
  Concentration camp survivor Dr Martin Stern is among the many voices questioning the education project’s site‘The idea of having a memorial to this catastrophe next to the mother of parliaments,” says Dr Martin Stern, “is brilliant.” He speaks of the Holocaust memorial proposed for Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the Palace of Westminster. He does not, though, feel the same way about a learning centre that is proposed to go with the memorial. He feels that this woul
  
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