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• Heart of stone: turning a remote Scottish barn into a stylish home

  01-10-2023 12:30
  
  Architect Lily Jencks inherited a 19th-century ruined shell in the wilds of Dumfriesshire and has transformed it with empathy and flairSitting in a magical position upon a Dumfriesshire hillside, the ruins of a 19th-century barn and adjacent farmhouse formed part of Lily Jencks’s childhood. The ruins are not far from the family estate where Lily spent many of her school holidays and which is also the site of the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, created by her late father, the landscape design
  
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• ‘No more lives lost’: Glasgow architects urge road changes after colleague’s cycling death

  01-10-2023 11:00
  
  Road infrastructure campaign has been launched in honour of designer Emma Burke Newman, who was killed in lorry collisionOn the long and busy stretch of road where Glasgow’s riverside meets its city centre, hundreds of commuters and visitors travel into and out of town each day. Since January this year, many will have spotted a new addition to their route: a white “ghost bike”, adorned with flowers and messages, parked at a busy junction where 22-year-old French-American archit
  
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