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• Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review – Lina Ghotmeh’s convivial canopy

  11-06-2023 12:00
  
  The celebrated Beirut-born architect Lina Ghotmeh designed her pleated timber pavilion to bring people together in nature. It’s a nice idea, though the details let it down – and the Serpentine’s formula needs a rethinkThe completed buildings of the French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh, although few in number, are works of strength and poise. Her recently completed leather-working workshops for Hermès, in Normandy, are a composition of variously shaped brick arches set
  
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• A tale of two cities: Paris proves that you don’t need skyscrapers to thrive | Rowan Moore

  11-06-2023 10:02
  
  A ban on high-rise buildings contrasts with Britain’s ever thrusting capitalThere’s a story that sections of the British commentariat have liked to tell for some time, about the differences between London and Paris. The French capital, it says, is over-regulated and over-taxed, nice to look at, good for weekend mini-breaks, but stagnant, frozen, a museum piece. Its British counterpart, in this reading, is thrusting, dynamic, creative, global, open for business.The contrast plays out
  
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