The main hospital building will be converted into flats The London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ planning committee has approved proposals by Latimer, the development arm of Clarion Housing Group, for the redevelopment of the former London Chest Hospital site in Bethnal Green. Latimer plans to transform the disused site into a community of 274 homes, […]
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You see someone at the edge of a gathering. The desire is simple and immediate. Your glance feels returned. Have I seen this person before? An unfathomable series of impressions – yours and those of others you have absorbed – have led here. But the pressure feels specific. Where did this need come from that
John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 9 February, 1940. An author and academic, Coetzee began writing fiction in 1969. His first novel, Dusklands, was published in South Africa in 1974. He is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, for The Life and Times of Michael K in
John and I met at the opening of a group show in Whitechapel. He was both an artist and a curator. He had recently been interviewed by a high-profile critic for the Financial Times and was becoming a recognised figure in the art scene. He’d been organising packed events since his first year at university,
cache 9 at sunset, the steepest steps, never thought you’d see me sweat, canter up and down the canyon, landscape of terrycloth, sky with its machine-wash fade, acid-wash shades of slate, dismount to mount again the canyon, somehow you are your own meridian, you hold the date line like a blade, your blade becomes my
I’ve always believed that the only constant in life is change. If we don’t embrace change, we fail to grow. Even worse, we put ourselves at risk. We lose the capacity to change when change is forced upon us. I resolved long ago I’d never again be afraid of change. And that is why I
Tilia Homes chief operating officer Philip Chapman Tilia’s sustainability-linked loan is expected to enable the house-builder to expand its landbank to put up more than 1,250 units a year. The funding will also support Tilia Homes’ five-year societal goals, including reducing waste by 30% and doubling trainees. Chief operating officer Philip Chapman said: “Land remains
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The camera slips from place to place, fuzzy yet alert. He tells me, afterwards, that the photographs were taken over three or four days. I knew that it was days, not hours. But it could have been months. In this series of images, taken over the course of two summers in Leighton Buzzard at Camp
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The University of Suffolk has awarded NG Bailey a contract to provide a full range of mechanical and electrical (M&E) maintenance for its main campus on the Ipswich Waterfront. NG Bailey will provide ongoing maintenance and repairs as well as supporting new projects across the university’s 18,000 sqm of lecture halls, laboratories, offices, catering and
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Gerald Balfour is remembered today mostly for being the brother and political confidant of Arthur Balfour, the Conservative Prime Minister and statesman who later issued the famous declaration that the British government would ‘view with favour’ the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. Gerald had spent a few years in
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