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• Serpentine pavilion 2024 review – Minsuk Cho’s multi-use design is bold and playful

  09-06-2024 12:00
  
  Kensington Gardens, London
  The South Korean architect has incorporated a climbing structure, a cafe and a library into an unpredictable space meant for coming together“Do a belly flop.” “Spread your arms like Jesus and then jump.” The photographers at the press view for the Serpentine pavilion are calling to me: I’ve ascended a rope climbing structure that is part of the design, and they fancy a shot of a moderately respectable gent flying on to a net underneath. If
  
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• Centre forward: Sunderland sets sights on a revival by bringing homes and jobs to its inner city

  09-06-2024 12:00
  
  In the 1980s Thatcher helped attract the likes of Nissan to the region, but it could not revitalise the city itself. Now a new industrial strategy, backed by the local council, is aiming for more sustainable resultsWhen Richard Marsden looks across the Wear gorge to the centre of Sunderland, he has never seen so many cranes. His design and build firm, BDN, is rushing to renovate an old stable block in the shadow of the city’s football stadium.“Now there’s a bit of a resurgence,
  
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