Architecture
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Campaigners will ‘shame’ mansion’s offshore owners into fully restoring national treasure or selling it on
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Campaigners call for historic sports venue in Madrid to become a world heritage site after its €38m restoration
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Observer Design Design news for February: tech to keep in touch and the world's biggest drawing club
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Play has been the invisible casualty of the pandemic. Is it time to let children reclaim the streets? Our writer looks forward to a post-Covid world of parklets, play streets and repurposed parking spaces
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Letters: Trevor Dannatt’s staircase at the Royal Festival Hall made a strong impression on Jeremy Lowe as a young architecture student, while John Page remembers a useful aspect of the banisters
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The man who helped revitalise New York with a linear park on a disused elevated railway hopes to do the same for the UK capital
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After decades of off-the-shelf design, Australian playgrounds are becoming more sophisticated, more nature-based and more appealing to adults
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Brief letters: Notre Dame | Dogs | Cats | Big mistakes | Royal award
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Few places have seen such turbocharged luxury development as Nine Elms on the London riverside. So why are prices tumbling, investors melting away and promises turning to dust?Podcast
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The scrapping of ambitious plans for the Centre for Music says much about where the arts stand in austerity-torn Brexit Britain
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A large settlement, a Roman villa and many household objects are among the discoveries at an ancient site in Oxfordshire
Eco-homes become hot property in UK's zero-carbon ‘paradigm shift’