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• Modern Buildings in Britain review – a phenomenal work of gathering and observation

  03-04-2022 12:00
  
  From a radar station in Fleetwood to the BBC’s Cardiff studios, Owen Hatherley’s generous survey of modernist architecture is insightful and surprisingIf you hadn’t heard of Coleg Harlech in Wales, an adult education college whose endangered brutalist structures are “probably the most sheerly convincing 20th-century buildings in the entire country”, don’t worry. You are not alone. And it is precisely because works like this are obscure that Modern Buildings in
  
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• Lord Norman Foster: ‘I still get the same buzz from designing buildings’

  03-04-2022 08:00
  
  Norman Foster has designed some of the world’s most visually sumptuous buildings, from the Gherkin in London to the Reichstag in Berlin. Now 86, the pioneering architect shows no signs of slowing downLord Norman Foster, the 86-year-old architect, is mostly known for things that don’t move: grand, iconic edifices such as the Gherkin and the British Museum’s Great Court in London, the Reichstag in Berlin and the Apple Park campus in California, completed in 2018. OK, he was also
  
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• The buildings we loved and loved to hate, 1989

  03-04-2022 07:00
  
  Norman Parkinson reviled Household Cavary in Hyde Park, Roy Strong adored Hardwick HallIt’s little surprise the fashion photographer Norman Parkinson’s favourite building was the outré, flamboyant Brighton Pavilion, pictured on the cover of the Observer Magazine of 16 April 1989, which teases us with his worst building, too (‘The beautiful and the damned’).While Parkinson hymned the royal palace – ‘wonderful, a delight, giving an insight into the age of
  
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• Rip it up and start again? The great Cumbernauld town centre debate

  03-04-2022 06:30
  
  Depending on who you ask, it is either a blight on the landscape or a fine example of 1960s brutalism. Is demolition the right answer?
  “Makes Chernobyl look like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.” “A concrete fungus.” “Could it not be carefully dismantled and reconstructed at the bottom of the North Sea?” This is some of the recent social media reaction on the subject of Cumbernauld town centre, once internationally celebrated, an ambitious but battered 1960s bu
  
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