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• London’s Liverpool Street station redevelopment: on the wrong track?

  13-05-2023 14:00
  
  Proposing artificial light, a concourse one floor away from the platforms and the partial demolition of a listed building, a £1.5bn plan to redevelop this historic London railway terminus seems ill-conceived, even with Herzog & de Meuron on boardLiverpool Street station in London, grand old Victorian terminus, one of the busiest in the country by footfall – honoured by a place on the Monopoly board – plus the adjoining former Great Eastern hotel, where the vampire-hunter Va
  
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• ‘It doesn’t need regeneration’: Peckham’s charm under threat from gentrification plans

  13-05-2023 14:00
  
  The quirky appeal of Rye Lane is threatened by developer’s 14 high-rise flats, sayresidentsThere’s a scene in Rye Lane, a film said to be breathing new life into romcoms, where the two main characters stroll past a body-popping white-haired man in a spangly Yves Klein blue cowboy outfit, then continue their conversation sitting in giant high heels outside a shoe shop.The moonwalking cowboy is an actor, but the shoe shop is real – one of dozens of outlets inside Rye Lane market
  
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