22 h. ago Dundee incident: Five workers fall unwell after 'potential hazardous materials incident' at flats

Police officers, firefighters and ambulance staff attended the flat block.

Politics

48 h. ago London skyline set to be transformed after 'jewel like' skyscraper approved for construction in Square Mile

The vacant office block at 130 Fenchurch Street, known as Fountain House, will be demolished to make way for two new high-rise towers at a cost of £300 million

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1 week ago Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when Donald Judd, art’s master minimalist, tried architecture

Weary of the New York scene, and keen to focus on architecture, the artist started buying up properties to play with in a tiny Texas town. Trouble was, he couldn’t stop. We take the tour of his Marfa creationsA colossal cliff of green-tinted glass stretches along the side of a railway line, like a minty glacier greeting arriving trains. The glazing shimmers strangely in the light, its surface variously matt and gloss, wrapping offices and atriums together inside a changeable crystal skin. There’s a reason it looks unlike a typical office block – and it’s not just the Swiss precision.Completed in 2000, the facade of Peter Merian Haus in Basel is the largest, and yet perhaps least known, work of Donald Judd, one of the 20th century’s most important minimalist artists. If you have ever pondered a polished aluminium box in an art museum, or encountered a gnomic stack of coloured acrylic rectangles projecting from a wall, they were probably by him. But few realise that Judd’s prolific ou...

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1 week ago Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when art’s master minimalist Donald Judd tried architecture

Weary of the New York scene, and keen to focus on architecture, the artist started buying up properties to play with in a tiny Texas town. Trouble was, he couldn’t stop. We take the tour of his Marfa creationsA colossal cliff of green-tinted glass stretches along the side of a railway line, like a minty glacier greeting arriving trains. The glazing shimmers strangely in the light, its surface variously matt and gloss, wrapping offices and atriums together inside a changeable crystal skin. There’s a reason it looks unlike a typical office block – and it’s not just the Swiss precision.Completed in 2000, the facade of Peter Merian Haus in Basel is the largest, and yet perhaps least known, work of Donald Judd, one of the 20th century’s most important minimalist artists. If you have ever pondered a polished aluminium box in an art museum, or encountered a gnomic stack of coloured acrylic rectangles projecting from a wall, they were probably by him. But few realise that Judd’s prolific ou...

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1 week ago London's ancient relics dating back centuries... now surrounded by towering glass skyscrapers

Dramatic photos showed the tower of All Hallows Staining Church balanced on stilts to preserve it as a new office block is built, but it is far from the only example of old London surrounded by the new.

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1 week ago Medieval London church lifted into the sky as office is built underneath

A medieval church tower in London was lifted 45ft above the ground to make way for a new skyscraper.

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2 w. ago The bloody history of church 'saved' by expert engineering, including fishmonger who met nasty end and a woman beaten to death

Photos yesterday showed how the tower of All Hallows Staining has been balanced 45 feet above the ground as part of an ongoing office block development.

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2 w. ago Medieval church tower in City of London resting on stilts for skyscraper project

Medieval church tower in City of London resting on stilts for skyscraper project  Premier Christian News

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2 w. ago Medieval church propped above excavation site for London skyscraper

Medieval church propped above excavation site for London skyscraper  Dezeen

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2 w. ago Medieval London church balanced 45ft above ground in ‘unprecedented feat of engineering’

All Hallows Staining has been placed on stilts while construction of a 36-storey skyscraper takes place

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2 w. ago Medieval church in London balanced on 45ft high platform for skyscraper work

Medieval church in London balanced on 45ft high platform for skyscraper work  The Independent

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2 w. ago Medieval church lifted 46 feet to make way for London office build

Medieval church lifted 46 feet to make way for London office build  Yahoo News Canada

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2 w. ago Medieval London church is balanced 45 feet above the ground in 'never before seen feat of engineering'... to make way for huge office block

The Grade I listed tower of All Hallows Staining Church was balanced on stilts above a 60,000 square foot excavation site at 50 Fenchurch Street.

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2 w. ago Home Office loses bid to challenge High Court ruling that granted Eritrean man a temporary block on his deportation to France under 'one

Only three Channel have been deported so far as part of the agreement with President Macron , undermining claims it will act as a deterrent.

Society

2 w. ago High Court block on deporting migrant to France damages public interest, Home Office claims

An Eritrean migrant had his deportation to France delayed last week after a High Court ruling

Events

3 w. ago Eritrean man is second to be deported to France under UK’s ‘one in, one out’ deal

Home Office says man left Heathrow for Paris early on Friday after losing high court attempt to block moveAn Eritrean man has been deported to France under the UK government’s “one in, one out” deal with the neighbouring country.The man – the second to be deported under the agreement – was on a flight that left Heathrow for Paris at 6.15am on Friday, the Home Office confirmed after he lost a high court attempt to block the move. Continue reading...

Economics

last month New French PM takes office as ‘Block Everything’ protests rock country – Europe live

Sebastien Lecornu appointment comes amid protests across France including 1,000 demonstrators trying to enter Gare du Nord station in ParisEmmanuel Macron appoints his third prime minister in a yearA teacher taking part in the protests in Paris said he was against the ousted government’s planned budget cuts. “[François]Bayrou was ousted, [now] his policies must be eliminated,” Christophe Lalande told Reuters, calling for more funding for schools and hospitals.At another protest in the city, unionist Amar Lagha told the news agency:This day is a message to all the workers of this country: that there is no resignation, the fight continues, and a message to this government that we won’t back down, and if we have to die, we’ll die standing. Continue reading...

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