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...The £186m concrete structure by the river Irwell is expected to be completed in 2022 as a permanent base for the festival....
...“We need to see details of measures put in place and concrete evidence of resulting changes in business practices....
...The possibilities for 3D printing technology are enormous – once we can apply it to concrete, large parts of buildings could be printed on site....
...From Get Carter to All the President’s Men, the bleak darkness of the concrete parking garage began to represent a paranoid, corrupt dystopia....
...These included David Lloyd George – the first true media prime minister – Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair....
...“Proponents of a V-shaped [economic] recovery are underestimating how much rising unemployment and an unstable structure of indebtedness can lengthen and deepen this recession,” says Sandy Chen, banks analyst...
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...Richard Wilson has similarly worked with the local vernacular....
...A Hundred Highways: American V Johnny Cash Lost Highway Cash’s final album, made in the months between June Carter Cash’s death and his own, is a fitting epitaph....
...It is one of the oddities of architectural history that many mid-century buildings - especially the brutalist structures of the 1950s and 1960s, before concrete lost out to the pristine, soaring energies...
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