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• Razing your architectural gem is a funny way to show a love for heritage, M&S | Catherine Bennett

  29-10-2022 19:00
  The retailer claims it values conservation and the environment. You could have fooled me‘Est 1884”. Thanks to assiduous reminders, it’s widely understood that the story of Marks & Spencer enjoys roughly the same place in national history and affections as do the Tudors and the second world war. In the absence of a Henry VIII or Churchill, the brand gets by with an innocent cartoon character/pink sweet, Percy Pig, whom customers are encouraged to think of as emblematic.The s
  
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• Portmeirion to Coleg Harlech: an architectural odyssey in north-west Wales

  29-10-2022 16:00
  One’s an architect’s idyll, the other a faded brutalist gem, but both are worth seeing on this scenic coastal hike between the twoIt’s hard to think of two building projects less alike than Portmeirion, the whimsical Italianate holiday village that was the career-long labour of love of the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, and the theatre and student housing tower of Coleg Harlech, a rugged work of concrete brutalism. Yet they were completed within a few years of each other, 197
  
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