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• New Marks & Spencer building will be a showcase for low-carbon design | Letter

  18-06-2024 19:03
  
  Fred Pilbrow on why the much-touted retrofitting of the flagship store on Oxford Street would be worse for the environment and commercially unviableI write in response to Oliver Wainwright’s piece about our proposed building for Marks & Spencer on London’s Oxford Street (‘Public vandalism’: M&S wants to flatten its art deco flagship store – here are six alternative options, 7 June). As architects, we understand the benefits of retrofit, but at Oxford Street
  
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• Change? If only. Labour’s housing plans are built on flimsy foundations, fantasies and fudge

  18-06-2024 16:34
  
  The manifesto promises minor common-sense reforms to the planning system. But the headline proposal for new towns won’t amount to much. Where is the bold modernism of the postwar Labour government?With his sleeves rolled up, his hands in his pockets and the frown of a building inspector encountering flammable cladding panels for the umpteenth time, Keir Starmer stares out in black and white from the cover of Labour’s election manifesto next to a single word: “Change.”The
  
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