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• John Turner obituary

  26-09-2023 21:41
  
  Architect impressed by urban squatter settlements in Peru who then set about persuading the wider world of their valueIn the 1950s and 60s John Turner, who has died aged 96, addressed the housing challenges faced by members of rural communities in Peru when they migrated to urban areas in search of a better life. Official planning and design approaches were neither appropriate nor affordable to such people, and Turner was immensely impressed by their resourcefulness in creating their own housing
  
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• Observatory built to represent Einstein’s theory of relativity reopens in Germany

  26-09-2023 18:15
  
  Einstein Tower has undergone extensive renovations to preserve it for future generationsA solar observatory built to substantiate Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity has been reopened outside the German capital after a top-to-tail renovation project to preserve it for future generations.The Einsteinturm (Einstein Tower) on Telegraph Hill in Potsdam, 16 miles (25km) south-west of Berlin, spent a year under scaffolding while work was carried out using modern techniques to seal its many th
  
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• Trowbridge ‘gargoyle’ finds its home in global architecture of spite

  26-09-2023 18:10
  
  ‘Spite buildings’ intended to cause irritation have a long and proud history from Beirut to Buenos AiresFrom view-blocking houses to nose-thumbing towers, revenge is the mortar that binds the bricks in “spite buildings”, constructed with the sole aim of causing irritation.The Al Ba’sa (The Grudge) house in Beirut, was built on a sliver of land in 1954 by one feuding brother merely to obstruct the sea view of the other. At just 60cm wide at its narrowest point, it re
  
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