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Boxed-up Churchill is a real work of art

13 June 2020

1:32 AM

13 June 2020

1:32 AM

Central London is becoming a paradise for modernists like me. First there was the extraordinary encasement of Big Ben in sci-fi scaffolding, transforming this dinky clock tower into a NASA launchpad, a witchy Cape Canaveral. Then came the austere grey shell that sat over the main body of the Palace of Westminster for several years, turning it temporarily into an awesome superstructure.

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