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Nicholas Boys Smith

OPINION - Let's be honest, London is no longer beautiful

If I had a pound for every developer, designer or official who told me that a bridge, office, home or factory must be ugly because it’s “all we can afford”, reader, I would be a rich man. But what they tell you is a lie: ugliness is always a choice.

What infrastructure looks like is back in the news thanks to a delightful new railway bridge (not a phrase normally heard) designed by ADAM Architecture for the Duchy of Cornwall.

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