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...That photographer is Thomas Ruff, with whom H&deM have been collaborating for decades....
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...Thomas Heatherwick, its co-designer, at the risk of ignoring the beam in his own eye, told the FT this week that modern architecture has left our cites suffering an “epidemic of boringness”....
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