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Is Thomas Heatherwick the best person to preach about modern architecture?

We can all sympathise with his desire to end bad, ugly new building, but too many of his own projects have had to be scrapped for functional reasons

Heatherwick’s ill-fated ‘B of the Bang’ sculpture in Manchester was completed long behind schedule in 2005 and scrapped four years later. [Getty Images]
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