Designers' Boast of a Gold-Medal Vision Fades Away to Bronze ; Commentary
Evening Standard - London › July 07, 2009
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LONDON does not often build homes on this scale. With 2,800 units in one go, the Olympic Village is up there with Sir John Nash's creation of Regent's Park as one of the capital's great residential set pieces. In terms of size it also compares with the Heygate and Aylesbury Estates in Southwark, two notorious works of the Sixties and Seventies that are facing demolition.
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Designers' Boast of a Gold-Medal Vision Fades Away to Bronze ; Commentary
The Olympic Delivery Authority says the Village is "gold medal wi...
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