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• Queer Spaces by Adam Nathaniel Thurman and Joshua Mardell review – a fascinating LGBTQIA+ architecture history

  15-05-2022 12:00
  
  From clubs and pubs to aristocratic follies, from an Indian theatre to a Cuban ice-cream parlour, this creative book is a hymn to the gay-friendly buildings treasured by film-makers, artists and activistsFonthill Abbey in Wiltshire is one of the great lost wonders of British architecture, a neo-gothic giant with cathedral-sized interiors, built from 1796 to 1813, whose 90-metre tower collapsed and was rebuilt several times. It fell for the last time in 1825, since when the rest of the building h
  
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• Queer Spaces by Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell review – a fascinating LGBTQIA+ architecture history

  15-05-2022 12:00
  
  From clubs and pubs to aristocratic follies, from an Indian theatre to a Cuban ice-cream parlour, this creative book is a hymn to the gay-friendly buildings treasured by film-makers, artists and activistsFonthill Abbey in Wiltshire is one of the great lost wonders of British architecture, a neo-gothic giant with cathedral-sized interiors, built from 1796 to 1813, whose 90-metre tower collapsed and was rebuilt several times. It fell for the last time in 1825, since when the rest of the building h
  
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• Homerton College, Cambridge dining hall: good enough to eat in

  15-05-2022 12:00
  
  All drama on the outside, full of delicacy within, Feilden Fowles’s daring design for Cambridge’s most diverse college provides a bright, harmonious space that revels in the detailsWell this is a treat. A new building that is serious and responsible – the Keir Starmer virtues, you could say; adjectives that might be synonyms for dull – that is also sumptuous and surprising, that takes delight in the things that architecture is made of, in materials, space, light and craft
  
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