Monthly Archives: November 2009

Beijing Bye Bye

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Man and van der Laan.

The work of architect Dom Hans van der Laan (1904-1991) is more influential as a system than as a design. The Dutch Benedictine monk is acclaimed by those who embrace modernism as a style rather than as an outlook or … Continue reading

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“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding.”

Jonathan Glancey repeated a few familiar myths about the Berlin Wall when he wrote about it recently. He wrote that  ‘what remains of it are a few graffiti-spattered stretches of concrete for tourists to snap one another by’. Certainly much … Continue reading

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