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• ‘It was built for this’: how design helped spare some homes from the LA wildfires

  17-01-2025 17:00
  
  As fires set LA ablaze, some houses are left standing amid ashes thanks to concrete walls, class A wood – and luckWhen last week’s fires in Los Angeles set parts of the city ablaze, one viral image was of a lone house in Pacific Palisades that was left standing while all of the homes around it were destroyed.Architect Greg Chasen said luck was the main factor in the home’s survival, but the brand-new build had some design features that also helped: a vegetation-free zone around
  
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• Experts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildings

  17-01-2025 16:00
  Architectural historians say success of Brady Corbet’s film could help in fight to protect heritage of divisive style“A mildewed lump of elephant droppings” is how King Charles, then Prince of Wales, described the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth after a visit to one of the UK’s most notable examples of brutalist architecture.His verdict was typical of those who take issue with the modernist architectural movement, characterised by imposing forms of raw concrete, whose buildi
  
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