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• Betjeman’s Liverpool Street campaign revived in face of new development

  23-11-2022 19:08
  Conservationists hope spirit of late poet laureate’s 1970s protest will protect the Victorian station from ‘serious harm’The poet John Betjeman’s campaign to save Liverpool Street station is being revived due to plans to build offices, shops and a hotel over the listed building, which conservationists say will ruin its character.The late poet laureate had a passion for railway architecture and led a successful crusade in the 1970s against plans to demolish Liverpool Stree
  
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• ‘It’s a bit Mary Poppins’: Lina Ghotmeh to design 2023’s Serpentine pavilion

  23-11-2022 07:00
  The Beirut-born architect is aiming for the smallest possible carbon footprint with an African-inspired ‘great shelter’ for meeting in Kensington GardensA slender wooden parasol will unfurl in Kensington Gardens next summer in London, its radial ribs supporting an expansive, low-slung canopy beneath the trees. It is the elegant vision of Lina Ghotmeh, the Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect who has been announced as the designer of the 22nd annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion.“
  
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