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Yorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing
Eccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlifeA Yorkshire parkland...
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Sagrada Familia in Barcelona ‘will be completed in 2026’
New date for Antoni Gaudí’s basilica announced but enormous, controversial stairway will take another eight yearsBarcelona’s...
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‘I am not very good at design’: architecture’s top honour goes to Riken Yamamoto
The Pritzker prize has been won by the 78-year-old Japanese master whose whose work ranges from...
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Africa’s largest mosque inaugurated in Algeria after years of delays
Prayer room of Great Mosque of Algiers, beset by political wrangling and cost overruns, accommodates 120,000...
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‘Parthenon of Macedonia’: site where Alexander the Great was proclaimed king reopens
Thousands flock to see the Palace of Aigai, the largest surviving classical Greek building, after 16-year...
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Portcullis House needs overhaul to ‘prevent glass falling on to people’
Report warns of urgent need to address ‘severe structural failings’ in roof of Westminster’s parliamentary office...
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Fixing leaning tower of Bologna will take at least 10 years and €20m, says mayor
Matteo Lepore compares project to save 12th century Garisenda tower from collapse to 10-year effort to...
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Leaning tower in Bologna to be saved as city announces €4m repair project
Work to be carried out on Garisenda tower in new year after area around it was...