Stephen Bayley

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Battersea Power Station undergoing renovation in 2020. ‘Big business at its most rapacious’ or the transformation of a decaying wreck? [Alamy]
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  • Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past

    James Stourton

    Head of Zeus, pp. 480, £30

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