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• ‘Elephant droppings’ critique of the Tricorn Centre wasn’t Prince Charles’s | Letters

  28-01-2025 19:24
  Celia Clark credits Catherine Gladdis with a description of a brutalist landmark in Portsmouth that is often attributed to the then Prince of WalesYour article says that Prince Charles (as he then was) called Portsmouth’s Tricorn Centre, one of the country’s first multi-use multistoreys, “a mildewed lump of elephant droppings” (Experts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildings, 17 January). It was actually Catherine Gladdis who describ
  
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• ‘The banks thought we were mad’: coral castles and look-at-me loos reinvent New York housing

  28-01-2025 11:00
  
  With building codes strict and land values high, Big Apple apartment blocks tend to be grim. But two firms, SO-IL and Tankhouse, are fighting back with lush courtyards, breezy landings – and glass-walled toilets 15 storeys upFor all its metropolitan dynamism and heady sense of possibility, New York is not a city that produces good housing. Its building codes are so strict, its land values so high, and its construction practises so intractable, that the results tend towards grim stacks of c
  
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