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• Nathan Silver obituary

  24-06-2025 21:11
  My father, Nathan Silver, who has died aged 89, was a distinguished architect, educator and author. His most enduring contribution to architectural history was Lost New York (1967), which was nominated for a US National Book award. It became a cultural phenomenon and helped establish the framework for New York’s landmarks law (1965) and similar preservation efforts worldwide.Nathan also co-authored Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation (1972) with Charles Jencks, and wrote several other inf
  
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• ‘Excessively wasteful and giving off Swarovski vibes’: our critic on the ‘tiara bridge’ for the late queen

  24-06-2025 16:47
  Norman Foster’s cast glass design to honour Queen Elizabeth II will see a perfectly decent bridge destroyed and vast sums squandered at great ecological cost. And how will it stay sparkly?• Translucent bridge to form centrepiece of national memorial to Elizabeth IIIs a £46m glass tiara the right way to remember the UK’s late queen? The Elizabeth II memorial selection committee certainly think so, in their choice of a glitzy glass bridge designed by Norman Foster for her pe
  
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• From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball

  24-06-2025 15:49
  Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings their owners couldn’t seeIt’s hard to imagine London without the mighty riverside citadels of Tate Modern and Battersea power station, or bereft of the ornate Victorian market halls of Smithfield and Billingsgate. It is equally difficult to picture Yorkshire without its majestic sandsto
  
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• Translucent bridge to form centrepiece of national memorial to Elizabeth II

  24-06-2025 06:00
  Norman Foster wins contest to transform St James’s Park in tribute to late queen’s ‘unifying force’The national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II will include a new bridge in St James’s Park designed by Norman Foster.The peer, who was once among architects to accuse King Charles of using his “privileged position” to “skew the course” of the Chelsea barracks development, described being awarded the project as an honour. Continue reading...
  
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