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• ‘I faked it at the beginning!’: David Chipperfield on his rise from shop designer to starchitect

  07-03-2023 16:16
  
  He almost failed architecture school. Now he’s netted the profession’s top prize, the Pritzker. Britain’s modernist master talks about the building that changed everything – and running a bar in SpainSometimes, it takes a trip abroad to make you realise what you have at home. When David Cameron visited German chancellor Angela Merkel in 2013, she introduced the then British PM to “one of our most famous German architects”. The designer in question? The London-
  
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• The romcom effect: will a new movie gentrify Peckham as Richard Curtis gentrified Notting Hill?

  07-03-2023 07:00
  
  The likable new release Rye Lane bills itself as ‘a love letter to south London’. But, like Amélie in Montmartre, could it end up damaging the place it sets out to celebrate?It’s always fun to see an area you know in a movie, so as a Peckham local, the new romcom Rye Lane is literally up my street. It is named after the bustling main thoroughfare of our south London neighbourhood, which is in the early stages of gentrification. African groceries and pound shops jostle up
  
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