Architecture
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Eno installations at the Montefiore Hospital
I’m not given much to hero worship, but Brian Eno is as close as I get. His ambient music is often the backdrop to my work, and his albums Neroli, Thursday Afternoon, The Plateaux of Mirrors (with Harold Budd), Music for Airports, and On Land are all favourites. While his book, A Year With Swollen Appendices, which…
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The Mosque Cathedral of Córdoba
A mosque with a cathedral bursting out of its roof. Ever since Lorraine and I went to Spain a month ago, I have been haunted by the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba. It is not rare for different religions to use the same holy sites over history, although what makes people originally decide a site is holy or…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 