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Goodbye
The late Denis Severs, Canadian eccentric and Georgian fanatic, has just published a book titled 18 Folgate St, about the house he used to live in and open to the public.
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Health & Safety
Will the destruction of the World Trade Centre give a new impetus to Health and Safety regulations?
I do not see this as a good thing. It will not be possible to build a fire-proof, bomb-proof, terrorist- proof building, any more than it is possible to lead a fire-proof, bomb-proof, terrorist free life.
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The Hut
I have just spent a week in a hut in a forest in Shropshire.
The hut has no running water, no electricity, and no foundations. It is made of heavy lapped board, with a pan-tiled pitched roof, sufficiently steep to need no guttering.
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High Rise
My agent in New York tells me that when they re-build the World Trade Centre, they will make it bigger.
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More Travel
Why do the French do it better? Don't worry, I'm not thinking about sex, though that was well under way in the cabin next to me, as I travelled by night from Calais to Brieve.
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Travel
If travel broadens the mind, that may be because it frees the mind from usefulness.
Our daily lives are spent being functional. Our cars, homes, workplaces all have a primary purpose. However pleasant we make those environments, we cannot forget what they are for. The same is true of most of the buildings we visit; their beauty, extravagance, ugliness, meanness, is disguised by their use.
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Invisible Cities
If you are taking just one book on holiday this year, take the book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island.
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