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| Night Waves broadcast profiles of the six buildings shortlisted for the Stirling Prize 2004, which was won by 30 St. Mary Axe, more commonly known as the 'Gherkin'. Listen again to profiles of each of the buildings, as seen through the eyes of local writers.
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|   Poet Jeffrey Wainwright surveys the windswept shards of Daniel Libeskind's Imperial War Museum North, Manchester.
"..I feel a guilty excitement at its terrible, inscrutable glamour.."
[Photo copyright: Len Grant] |
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|  Austrian-British film-maker and journalist Fred Baker marvels at the great glass pumpkin of the Kunsthaus, Graz, built by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier.
"..the curve is much loved in Austria, Graz is a home to the Baroque.."
[Photo Copyright:Colin Fournier] |
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|  Novelist Toby Litt wonders why Norman Foster's Swiss-Re Tower at 30 St. Mary Axe has been nicknamed "The Gherkin".
"..the gherkin is architecture that says very clearly that it doesn't want to hurt anyone, or anything.."
[Photo Copyright:Grant Smith]
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|  Playwright Chris O'Connell takes a journey through time and space as he visits the regeneration project called 'The Phoenix Initiative' in Coventry
"..I wonder if the city is more alive than we think, not inanimate but breathing and restless.."
[Photo Copyright: Mark Goodwin]
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|  Dublin's Spire, nicknamed "The Spike", as seen by actress, journalist and novelist Deidre Purcell
"..it is other-worldly, it is mystery, it is light .."
[Photo Copyright: Barry Mason]
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|  Poet and playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi reflects on a school with a difference, the Bexley Business Academy
"..the impact of the Business Academy is on the human mind..it's an idea about society, about education.."
[Photo Copyright: Nigel Young]
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