We must learn to build a better Britain
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
The standard of modern architecture, as typified by the Westfield shopping centre, is appalling, says Clive Aslet.
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A Lust for Window Sills by Harry Mount and The English House by Clive Aslet reviews
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
... designer tries to grope the author by tracing out the façade of Knole House along his thigh.In Clive Aslet's elegant account, The English House, he deftly traces how the shape and style of dwellings have developed in this country over the last millennium. But it also describes how the inhabitants of 20 exemplary buildings transformed those structures into places they called home....
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Mr Toad indeed
Spin and Spinners (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
It's hard to believe a national newspaper could print the kind of tosh today's Telegraph has served up from Clive Aslet , Editor at Large of 'Country Life'. The piece is headed: "Speed limits are about money, not safety". How does someone spin a proposal to ban speeding drivers rather than fine them as being "about money"? Well, first Aslet comes up with the usual argument that...
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Village voice: Ewelme
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Visit the pretty hamlet of Ewelme, and watch the recession recede. By Clive Aslet.
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Property in Wales: Unspeakably beautiful
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
Mastering the language may prove tricky, says Clive Aslet, but nowhere could beat Wales for toughing out the crunch.
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