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• Divine renovation: as churchgoing declines in Australia, places of worship are up for sale

  05-11-2022 20:00
  Faced by rising repair costs, parishes are being forced to sell. But some in the community are concerned about the fate of historic buildingsNeil Hicks, the archdeacon at the Anglican diocese of Wangaratta, knows the number of his parishioners is dwindling.“When I was a kid, lots of kids in my primary school went to church and Sunday school but by middle school most had stopped going and now they’re grandparents,” he says. Continue reading...
  
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• The National Gallery needs to rethink its plans to make an entrance | Rowan Moore

  05-11-2022 17:00
  Remodelling the Sainsbury Wing on the lines of ‘an airport lounge’ is not a recipe for permanenceIf you write about buildings you’re sometimes shown the makeovers of grand national institutions. You’re told that tens of millions of pounds’ worth of work is absolutely necessary to put right the inadequacies of previous projects 20 or more years ago. If you write about buildings for long enough, you get to see the makeovers of the makeovers you saw last time around. W
  
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