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+  From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:15:36 +0530
| was it really that long ago! _now_ we feel *old*


Mullets. White jeans. Architecture?
By Megan Lane
BBC News Magazine

As with fashion, styles come and go in buildings. With the haircuts, clothes and music of the 1980s making a comeback, is its architecture due a revival?

The building One Poultry is nothing if not an eye-catcher. Like a proud ocean liner breasting the waves of commerce, this pink-and-yellow banded block stands out amidst the more demurely hued buildings in the City of London.

con'd... (more tongue-in-cheek)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4745635.stm


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