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• The Guardian view on the hidden carvings of Salisbury Cathedral: messages to the future | Editorial

  12-09-2023 19:27
  
  For centuries stonemasons have left secret signature works in buildings. In an age of machines, they are a testament to what it is to be humanThe “topping out” of Salisbury Cathedral last week marked the end of a 37-year restoration project, which has returned the 14th-century building to its former glory. But as the scaffolding is dismantled over the next few weeks, after the traditional ceremony of completion and blessing, a small part of the humanity of the endeavour will disappea
  
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• ‘We’re here to stay’: the stack-em-high wooden workspace fighting the luxury flats plague

  12-09-2023 17:29
  
  Huge numbers of vital workshops have been lost to higher-return housing. But one architect is creating budget spaces by building upwards – with wood. We meet the busy tenants of his £5m WorkstackA stack of blocks teeters on the side of a busy road in Charlton, London, like a pile of shipping containers freshly offloaded from the nearby Thames. It is an arresting sight in this area of builders’ merchants and big box retail stores, each block thrusting out above the one below as
  
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