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• Pride and politics of Sheffield’s Park Hill

  12-04-2022 19:09
  
  Claims that the estate was neglected by the council are challenged by John Kirkwood, while Chris Bone celebrates a theatrical tribute to the people who have lived thereOliver Wainwright’s otherwise excellent overview of the redevelopment of Sheffield’s Park Hill estate concludes by blaming “the council’s neglect of this public asset” (‘It always felt good here’: how Sheffield’s brutalist Park Hill estate survived the haters and their bulldozers, 7
  
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• Sacred space or corporate lobby? OMA’s temple pavilion rises in Los Angeles

  12-04-2022 07:00
  
  It’s designed by Rem Koolhaas studio – but the $98m Audrey Irmas Pavilion could have done with a little more divine inspirationWith Romanesque campaniles, gothic spires and brutalist bell towers, Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles has long been home to an eclectic parade of religious fantasies. Beginning in the 1920s, when the mid-Wilshire area was an upper-class suburban enclave, congregations competed to construct their outsize monuments along this major east-west thoroughfare. Goth
  
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