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• ‘Really cool, day or night’: readers’ top modern European architecture

  19-05-2022 12:00
  
  From a giant Gulliver in Spain to a sleek basking whale in Budapest, readers tip 10 destinations with stunning contemporary buildingsThe Hamsun Centre in Hamarøy, northern Norway (a couple of hours by boat from Bodø), is dedicated to Norway’s most famous novelist, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), hailed by many as the father of modern Norwegian literature. Designed by the American architect Steven Holl, the striking building, which dominates the landscape for miles, offers references
  
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• Henrietta Howard’s historic Georgian villa to open to public after restoration

  19-05-2022 07:00
  
  Decades of disrepair reversed at Marble Hill, home built on the Thames for king’s mistress and court society figure“There is a greater court now at Marble Hill than at Kensington,” the poet Alexander Pope wrote in 1735. Now, the historic Georgian villa in west London belonging to Henrietta Howard, the Countess of Sussex, is to reopen following decades of ruin.Though mainly known as King George II’s mistress, Howard was a remarkable woman in her own right, overcoming perso
  
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