Come Deck the Halls! – Alison Smithson’s Christmas cards

When I worked on The Architectural Review, come Christmas season, a stream of architects’ greetings cards would trickle fitfully into the office. Many were self-designed, usually featuring trees, puddings or Santa’s sleighs, knowingly reworked as architectural drawings. It was amusing at first, but the yuletide in-jokes grew decidedly laboured. Once …

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Northfleet retirement community without post for four week

Phil HarrisonBBC News, South East BBC Ann MacLeod is one of the residents at Huggens College in Northfleet which went for weeks without post earlier this month A Kent retirement community has expressed anger after not receiving any letters for four weeks. Although a “sporadic” service has recently resumed, residents …

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Bristol professor could have solved Bayeux Tapestry mystery

“Many, and perhaps all, of these conflicts and contradictions can be resolved” The Bayeux Tapestry – Bristol historian Prof Benjamin Pohl has a new theory that the tapestry was created for the refectory of St Augustine’s Cathedral in Canterbury. The refectory no longer exists, but its footprint remains in the …

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