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Yabba dabba doo! Could these bulging, Flintstones-style towers be the future of eco-building?

Ruggedly good-looking and greener than bricks and concrete, Petra Heights are made of three-metre slabs of rough rock. Could they herald a new stone age? Our writer fires up his Flintmobile There’s been a geological eruption on London’s Finchley Road. Great chunks of pink basalt and igneous larvikite appear to have exploded from the railway cutting, shooting skywards to form teetering towers. Anyone trying to find Finchley Road & Frognal station need wonder no more: just look for the multistorey Stonehenge. Countless apartment towers have sprouted above London’s stations in recent years, a res

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Old Vic 2027 season to feature Damian Lewis in a ‘provocative’ Henry V and Milly Alcock as Miss Julie

Rupert Goold begins his tenure as artistic director with a version of Shakespeare’s history play, followed by shows starring Supergirl’s Alcock and Arinzé Kene Damian Lewis is to play Henry V at the Old Vic in London in the first production under the theatre’s new artistic director, Rupert Goold. Goold will direct what is billed as a “provocative” version of Shakespeare’s history play that challenges “what makes a leader a legend”. It will be Lewis’s first major theatre role since he starred in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? almost 10 years ago. He has previously played Romeo and Hamlet on stage,

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‘I’m looking for faces which surprise me’: how Richard Avedon photographed the soul of his subjects

Ron Howard’s illuminating Netflix documentary looks back on the career of one of America’s most inventive and versatile photographers Richard Avedon had only taken a couple of frames when he accidentally hit his head on a light being held above him. The Dalai Lama burst into laughter. That was when Avedon snapped two more frames and announced: “Oh, I got it!” Avedon’s assistant, Sebastian Kim, was baffled. “I was like, what the hell happened? There’s only four frames out of a roll of 12 frames,” he recalls in a phone interview. “I realised he knew at that moment that something had happened, a

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