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• A modern parliament doesn’t need a brand new building | Letter

  04-03-2022 19:00
  
  Careful conservation architects and engineers are what’s required, not grandiosity and ego, writes Judith Martin Roy Appleyard (Letters, 1 March), who believes the Palace of Westminster should be pulled down and replaced with a modern building, cites the Scottish and Welsh parliaments as exemplars. He has forgotten the financial saga of the building of the Scottish parliament? The Scotsman reported in 2003 that it had achieved possibly the most embarrassing accolade, being ranked as one of
  
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• Brutal reality of living in the Barbican | Letter

  04-03-2022 18:53
  
  Forty years after the development of the centre, William Edmead remembers life in the block wasn’t quite how it was conceived to be I rented a one-bedroom flat in the Barbican between 1972 and 1977 (‘A brutalist hanging gardens of Babylon’ – the maddening, miraculous Barbican hits 40, 1 March). The rent was fixed for those five years at £1,000 per annum (I think I was earning £4,000 around then). I was the first person to live in the flat, and at the time the
  
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