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• Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings

  21-07-2024 16:00
  
  Nearly 80 years after it was conceived, an update to a peerless series of guides to the country’s architecture concludes with a detailed Staffordshire handbook that, typically, isn’t just an exercise in nostalgiaIn the 1940s, a refugee from Nazi Germany called Nikolaus Pevsner started travelling round the lanes and streets of England, armed with sheaves of notes compiled in advance from lengthy research, cataloguing the noteworthy structures in meticulous-going-on-obsessive detail. I
  
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• Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum review – it’s a wondrous jungle out there

  21-07-2024 12:00
  
  The museum’s newly transformed gardens are a collaborative triumph, offering a walk through geological time in a landscape of ancient rocks and Jurassic planting that’s a haven for wildlife, Londoners and dinosaurs alikeThe Urban Nature Project, the Natural History Museum’s transformation of the five-acre open space in front of it, is a triumph of cultural and architectural multitasking. It educates, surprises and delights. It is a living laboratory for expert research. It make
  
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• ‘It is our destiny’: Meet the people who rebuilt Notre Dame

  21-07-2024 09:00
  
  In April 2019, Agnès Poirier watched a fire almost destroy the Paris cathedral. For the past five years, she has had unique access to the army of artisans tasked with rebuilding the 12th-century ‘soul of France’The yellow-brown plumes of smoke coiling upwards filled my entire kitchen window. A few moments earlier the sky had been bright blue. I rushed down the stairs on to Quai de la Tournelle. Everything was still and eerily silent: passersby looked stunned, rooted to the gro
  
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