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• ‘A tipping point for the city’: anger in Birmingham as Electric cinema closes

  10-03-2024 16:00
  
  Campaign to save UK’s oldest working cinema and designate Station Street ‘a historic asset’ launched amid redevelopment plansThere are growing calls to protect a street in Birmingham that was home to the UK’s first purpose-built repertory theatre, a pub that hosted Black Sabbath’s first gig and the country’s oldest working cinema, with two of the three venues now closed down.The closure last week of the Electric cinema on Station Street, 114 years after it ope
  
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• New River Wing, Clare College, Cambridge review – a perfect fit

  10-03-2024 12:00
  
  Built offsite in Yorkshire and carefully squeezed into its narrow riverside site, the oak-framed extension to Cambridge’s second oldest college combines Tudor-tech spirit and cutting-edge, ship-in-a-bottle engineeringThere’s a lot of talk around about “beauty”. Social media is littered with posts of golden, old, sun-drenched buildings, in which some self-appointed wise man hands down aphorisms on their “spiritual significance”. They come with lamentations that
  
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