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• Britain could learn from the beauty of local power in Belgium | Letters

  03-05-2022 19:06
  
  In Belgium, regional authorities are empowered create their own futures, writes Dr Nicholas Falk, while Richard Tippett relates praise of its fine buildingsOliver Wainwright suggests how the public sector could build a much better Britain by adopting the sort of rules used in Flanders to create beautiful buildings (The Flanders phenomenon: how Belgian buildings went from joke to genius, 28 April). However, a much deeper reason why northern Belgium has outpaced the UK in economic as well as envir
  
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• ‘You get filthy’ – the photographer who shoots sweaty workmen in building sites

  03-05-2022 09:00
  
  Finding it tough to break into conceptual art, David O’Mara shot all the people he worked with in his day job instead – from bricklayers to painters and decoratorsDavid O’Mara is reminiscing about the job that started it all. “A family friend knew someone who had a painting company and they said, ‘Oh, you’ve been to art college, you’ll be all right!’” He laughs. “But I hadn’t touched a paintbrush in years. I was into conceptual ar
  
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• ‘You get filthy’ – the photographer who shoots manual labourers in building sites

  03-05-2022 09:00
  
  Finding it tough to break into conceptual art, David O’Mara shot all the people he worked with in his day job instead – from bricklayers to painters and decorators, all very sweatyDavid O’Mara is reminiscing about the job that started it all. “A family friend knew someone who had a painting company and they said, ‘Oh, you’ve been to art college, you’ll be all right!’” He laughs. “But I hadn’t touched a paintbrush in years. I was i
  
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