• Sidcup library and cinema review – William Morris meets the multiplex

    With notes of art deco and Arts and Crafts, Sidcup’s vibrant new library and cinema, designed by classy minimalists DRDH, brings new energy to a suburban high street against considerable oddsSidcup is an outer London suburb of the kind that grew up between the two world wars, as part of a rapid expansion of the capital that saw it double in area. Its buildings had a bit of front – a store and apartment block with a giant order of shallow Ionic pilasters; a now-lost art deco cinema: e

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