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• London’s West End gets first purpose-built theatre in 50 years

  21-07-2022 16:44
  
  Part of a £300m regeneration of the area near Tottenham Court Road station, @sohoplace combines intimacy with innovative designA major new West End theatre is to open this autumn, designed to give audiences an alternative to the restricted legroom, poor sightlines and iffy acoustics – not to mention stuffy heat – of some of London’s older playhouses.On a tour of the venue, which has been named @sohoplace, its owner Nica Burns explained that the building’s proximity
  
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• Wormholes, recycled loos and a zero carbon Big Banger – the battle to be Britain’s best new building

  21-07-2022 01:01
  
  The Stirling prize finalists include an arts centre clad with toilet bowls, a glassy eco office block, a corridor-free school, a ‘floury bap’ of a college – and another that’s like a luxury treehouseA community centre made of recycled toilet bowls will go up against a naturally ventilated library and a “zero carbon” refurbishment of a 1980s office block, in this year’s competition for the UK’s best new building. As the country swelters in 40C heat,
  
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