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• Trevor Hendy obituary

  04-07-2025 19:43
  My friend Trevor Hendy, who has died aged 89, was director of development at United Kingdom Housing Trust (UKHT) in the 1980s, a period in which, among other things, he brought back to life its Arlington House property, a 900-bed hostel for working men in north London that had fallen into squalor under private ownership. Trevor oversaw much-needed improvements to living conditions there, and the hostel (of which I was a board member) is still operating.He left UKHT in the late 80s to set up a ho
  
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• Charred chimneys are all that’s left of these LA midcentury homes. Inside the quest to save them

  04-07-2025 12:00
  A piece of history burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires. Project Chimney is salvaging what’s left to honor the architecture – and eventually create a memorialBy mid-morning last Thursday, Evan Hall was standing near the top of Monument Street in Los Angeles’s Pacific Palisades, looking out over the Pacific Ocean. He was running out of time.Hall stood in the charred ruins of a 1953 home designed by the modernist architect Richard Neutra. Beside him, a handful of hard-hat-cla
  
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• ‘Forgotten’ designer of art nouveau Métro entrances to get Paris museum

  04-07-2025 10:22
  Fans say opening of museum honouring Hector Guimard, whose work went out of fashion, will right a historic wrongThe “forgotten” designer of Paris’s most iconic Métro station entrances and art nouveau buildings is to be given his rightful place in the city’s history with a museum dedicated to his work.Hector Guimard left a distinctive mark across the French capital in the early 1900s, creating elaborate and monumental Métro entrances whose fans of iron and gl
  
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