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• ‘They were transforming their countries’: South Asian architecture after British rule

  22-02-2022 16:30
  
  A MoMA exhibition takes a new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independenceLight lands softly on concrete walls in a series of silver gelatin prints by an unknown photographer. These small, souvenir-like snapshots give glimpses into the houses of Sri Lanka’s first female architect, Minette de Silva. Here, there are no architectural drawings or models – those have been lost to time. What we see are the personal artifacts of
  
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• Mellow yellow – how a feelgood buttery brick revived a decaying 1960s estate

  22-02-2022 07:00
  
  A revolutionary, no-nonsense cooked clod of clay has given South Kilburn a new lease of life. But can the rest of the rundown estate live up to its refreshed streetscape?If 1960s housing was known for concrete panels, the 1980s for cartoonish pediments, and the 2000s for tacky (sometimes fatal) clip-on cladding, the current epoch will be remembered for bricks. But not just any old brick. It is a yellowish, biscuity brick, whose particular patina falls somewhere between a digestive and a Hobnob.
  
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• Mellow yellow – can a feelgood buttery brick really revive a decaying 1960s estate?

  22-02-2022 07:00
  
  The leaking concrete towers of South Kilburn have been replaced with mansion blocks clad in now-ubiquitous Mystique bricks. Will they succeed where other attempts at regeneration have failed?
  If 1960s housing was known for concrete panels, the 1980s for cartoonish pediments, and the 2000s for tacky (sometimes fatal) clip-on cladding, the current epoch will be remembered for bricks. But not just any old brick. It is a yellowish, biscuity brick, whose particular patina falls somewhere between a di
  
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