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• ‘We live in the best house in the world’: five design experts on how to live better in small homes

  05-04-2024 16:00
  
  From Ikea storage to the benefits of a solidly built table, architects from Paris to Tokyo share their tips and philosophy for living beautifully in smaller spacesAustralia has some of the largest homes in the world. Many who do live small aspire to one day live big. But around the world, limited space is not always seen as a sacrifice.From Sweden, where the average size of an apartment is 68 sq metres, to Hong Kong’s micro flats as small as 18 sq metres, globally architects are used to ge
  
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• Anthony Barnes obituary

  05-04-2024 15:28
  
  My friend Anthony Barnes, who has died aged 92, was an executive in the soft drinks and chemicals industry until he changed tack to become director of the Redundant Churches Fund, now the Churches Conservation Trust. Later he joined the Norfolk Churches Trust as its secretary, helping to care for and conserve a number of ecclesiastical buildings across the county.Both with the Trust and later as a volunteer, Anthony rescued a number of Norfolk churches and prevented St Peter Hungate in Norwich f
  
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• Ron’s Place: Birkenhead flat of outsider art granted grade-II listing

  05-04-2024 06:01
  
  Victory for campaigners and conservators as elaborately decorated property is honoured with protected statusA ground-floor rented flat in Birkenhead which was crafted over a period of 30 years into an extraordinary palace of outsider art has been given Grade II-listed status.The flat in Wirral, known as Ron’s Place, is thought to be the UK’s only example of outsider art to be nationally listed. Continue reading...
  
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