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• School Green Centre, Shinfield review – where Lidl meets idyll, a civic space for all

  30-04-2023 12:00
  
  Part barn, part secular church, a new cultural and community centre designed for everything from weddings to tai chi offers an imaginative resource for a rapidly developing Berkshire town“A little world of our own,” wrote one Mary Russell Mitford around two centuries ago, about a hamlet called Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire. It was, she said in her once-famous book about rural life, Our Village, “close-packed and insulated” like &ld
  
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• ‘A Flintstone cave made by pranksters’: New York’s audacious new museum wing

  30-04-2023 11:00
  
  It’s late and over budget but the Museum of Natural History’s $465m gallery gives a stunning home to its insectsSome museums have more personality than others and the American Museum of Natural History has never had trouble attracting attention. Packed with rare specimens, organic samples and glittering minerals, as well as some uncannily lifelike animal and human models, the New York institution has long featured in urban legend, as well as on the big screen.So this week – des
  
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