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• ‘Why not just go the full Vegas?’ The crass, ad-laden reinvention of central London

  28-10-2022 13:00
  There’s a new theatre, four live venues, ‘walk-in’ billboards, and a hotel for Hollywood A-listers with subwoofers en suite. So why is this West End development about as exciting as a 1980s business park?
  ‘Coarse in the extreme,” was how the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described Centre Point in 1973. In his eyes, the white concrete office tower – which stands at the junction of New Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road like a gleaming signpost for
  
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• A beheaded monarch, subversive ceramics and oil drilling in Gateshead – the week in art

  28-10-2022 13:00
  Celebrate Halloween with an executed King Charles, clay like you’ve never seen it and a taste of Kurdistan in Tyneside – all in your weekly dispatchExecutions
  A gory Halloween history lesson that includes relics of the beheaded Charles I, as well as 18th-century death-cell portraits and an axe or two.
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