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Mayfield joint campus to promote broader utility
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Delayed Motherwell tower block demolitions back on track
Mark said,
"…based on tenant demand and investment need" - but if the tower blocks had been upgraded,...
Keyhole surgery resuscitates a Brutalist shopping centre
Banister Fletcher said,
It would seem that the fashionable tag of 'Brutalist' is being applied to anything these days....
Keyhole surgery resuscitates a Brutalist shopping centre
Sean McLaughlin said,
Just bomb it off the face of the earth. It always distresses me to walk by it and remember the...