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Nieuw Leyden

Reclaim the streets: it’s only when you stroll about amongst pots, pear trees and picnic tables that you really feel the potential of car-free streets.

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Design Review Claire Bennie Design Review Claire Bennie

Strijp-S and NDSM

Mixing it: as London attempts to combine high density resi with workspace and industrial uses, I ask myself: WWDD? (What Would the Dutch do?) And can a ‘mega-campus’ ever be an intimate place?

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Design Review Claire Bennie Design Review Claire Bennie

Lyon: Confluence

Lyon’s massive regeneration of its island is on a similar scale to Nine Elms in London, but uses a more fine grained and diverse approach. Shame about the indoor shopping mall…

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