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• Christopher Woodward obituary

  09-10-2022 15:40
  Architect who designed the indoor mall in Milton Keynes to resemble the experience of shopping on the high streetThe Shopping Building, an indoor mall in the heart of the city centre, serves as Milton Keynes’s high street. Opened in 1979 and now rebranded the Centre: MK, it is surviving the economic downturn better than most, and its natural lighting makes shopping a more pleasant experience than in other indoor centres. The light comes from high clerestories over the malls, since the main
  
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• Battersea power station: a giant that needs no grand gestures

  09-10-2022 12:00
  After decades of disuse and wild plans for its redevelopment, Wilkinson Eyre’s restrained conversion of this huge London landmark embraces the bravura of the original design, while the new flats are not so successfulThe first thing that hits you is the scale. Have so many bricks ever been piled up like this anywhere else? It’s a cliff, a behemoth, a Babylonian monolith. Up close, you keep recalibrating your sense of proportion, like a confused camera lens, not quite believing what yo
  
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