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• ‘You can’t escape danger’: the artist making ‘risky’ playgrounds – and splitting opinions

  13-11-2022 15:00
  New Zealand engineer Mike Hewson has raised eyebrows with his ‘risky play park’ in Melbourne. But the kids are voting with their feetGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn Monday, an inner-city playground opened as part of a $44m council upgrade to create open space in Melbourne’s most densely populated suburb, Southbank. The monkey bars, slides, swings and ropes signalled fun; children swarmed.But this playground was not like others. The climbing equipment was draped on
  
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• Qatar World Cup stadiums: pitch fever at any price

  13-11-2022 12:00
  Qatar’s new stadiums are Instagram-ready and waiting, but there’s no getting away from the environmental cost of their construction – nor the question of what to do with them when the crowds go homeQatar’s impending World Cup, which kicks off next Sunday, does not only require the creation of vast sporting infrastructure almost from scratch. It also comes with a striking fetish – in the case of six of its eight stadia claiming to look like things that they are not:
  
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