Stuart Jeffries

Skyscraper squats and a lesson from India: the future of British architecture

What we can learn from the lovely mud and ferro-cement houses of Anupama Kundoo – and is it time to gut Canary Wharf?

Anupama Kundoo’s domed houses for homeless children in Pondicherry, built using mud, ferro-cement and upcycled waste. Credit: Javier Callejas
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