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• North Yorkshire’s film-star stately home set to earn its keep by hosting paying guests

  25-04-2025 07:00
  Wealthy fans of Brideshead Revisited or Bridgerton may soon be able to stay at newly refurbished Castle HowardLaurence Olivier’s elderly Lord Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited died in it and a pair of hot young newlywed aristocrats in Bridgerton made out in it.Now someone with deep pockets may be able to occupy that same 18th-century canopy bed at Castle Howard. In the morning they might take breakfast in a room with Canaletto paintings on the wall and Meissen plates on which to butter the
  
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• ‘It shapes the whole experience’: what happens when you build a city from wood?

  25-04-2025 06:00
  Transforming a former industrial area in Sweden will bring psychological benefits for future residents and reduce construction’s climate impactAlthough activity is high, it is surprisingly quiet inside the construction site of a high school extension in Sickla, a former industrial area in south Stockholm that is set to become part of the “largest mass timber project in the world” according to the Swedish urban property developer Atrium Ljungberg.Just a few months remain until s
  
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