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• Roger FitzGerald obituary

  26-08-2022 18:16
  
  My father, Roger FitzGerald, who has died aged 63, was a leading architect who chaired the national firm ADP for 20 years. Among other projects, he designed the only significant extension to the Palace of Westminster since the present structure was built in the 1800s. He was also a prolific painter who created four books and whose works fetched thousands of pounds at charity auctions.Roger was born in Cambridge, the son of Desmond, a quantity surveyor, and Eileen, who worked in catering, and he
  
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• Mark Girouard obituary

  26-08-2022 17:41
  
  Architectural historian who wrote extensively on stately homes and campaigned to save the Georgian houses of SpitalfieldsMark Girouard, who has died aged 90, was Britain’s most readable architectural historian, a great authority on Elizabethan and Victorian architecture whose extensive writings used the study of buildings to illuminate the social life of the past. The publication of Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History in 1978 captured the zeitgeist in a pe
  
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• ‘I fell asleep on a soundsystem!’ – the pyramid-building artists invading Notting Hill carnival

  26-08-2022 10:00
  
  At this year’s city-shaking, weekend-long bash, a triangular pavilion will be appearing amid the floats and dancers. Revellers can sneak inside for a rest – or climb on top and partyAlvaro Barrington is recalling his first ever festival experience in Grenada: “I was maybe five years old and my cousins took me to J’ouvert,” he says, referring to the day that acts as a precursor to the main party in Caribbean culture. “I have a memory of one of my older cousins
  
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