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• ‘It’s a monkey’s puzzle’: is it possible to rebuild the Crooked House pub?

  03-03-2024 13:00
  
  The venue’s owners have been told to put it back to its wonky glory after it was gutted by a fire and bulldozedRebuilding a 260-year-old building that was burned to a shell and then bulldozed to a pile of rubble is no mean feat in any scenario. But rebuilding the Crooked House pub, a lopsided structure that had sunk 4ft into the ground, is even trickier.“It’s a bit of a monkey’s puzzle, with no right angles,” said Stephen Levrant, who runs a heritage architecture fi
  
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• Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows

  03-03-2024 12:00
  
  V&A, London
  Modernist architecture’s arrival in India and colonial west Africa, and how, post-independence, a new generation of local architects made the style their own, is explored in an intriguing new exhibitionIn Chandigarh, northern India, in 1957, a road inspector called Nek Chand started building a fantasy world, alone and with his bare hands, in a secluded wooded area. He constructed palaces and waterfalls and an evocation of his home village in what was now Pakistan, from whic
  
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