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• Architectural vision for London station is little more than smoke and mirrors | Rowan Moore

  28-01-2023 17:00
  
  Dazzling computer-generated images of a newly revamped Liverpool Street do little to establish its merits or flawsProperty companies have always liked to put the best possible gloss on their proposals – views taken from angles that minimise their bulk, atmospheric effects in their images that make many tonnes of construction materials melt into the air. A virtuoso example was recently presented at Liverpool Street station by Sellar Property Group, which brought us the Shard, in a brief &ld
  
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• ‘Like a sun on Earth’: Las Vegas warning if dazzling venue built in London’s East End

  28-01-2023 14:30
  
  Stratford residents fear planned MSG Sphere concert hall will ruin their sleep with light pollutionEast London residents are being warned that light pollution from a controversial huge new concert venue – the MSG Sphere – will be “like a sun on Earth”. The message comes from neighbours of a Las Vegas version, more than 5,000 miles away.Plans for the new concert hall in Stratford took a step closer to realisation last week when the London Legacy Development Corporation (LL
  
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