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For the weekend Worthy Farm in Somerset becomes a city approximately the same size as Oxford
Worthy Farm in Somerset and the surrounding area played host to around 175,000 people attending Glastonbury festival last weekend, making it a temporary city of approximately the same size as Oxford.
Although there are some permanent features of the festival, the majority of the infrastructure that caters for the population is put in place for just one weekend every year that the festival takes place.
Construction takes place on Spanish architect SelgasCano’s Serpentine Pavilion
‘Urban adventurer’ stands on top of the Wembley Arch 130 metres above the ground
The London Festival of Architecture kicks off with the unveiling of two pavilions in Lewis Cubitt Square, King’s Cross
As well as setting departmental capital budgets for rest of the parliament, this month’s spending review will also be followed by a long-awaited infrastructure strategy that will determine the future of private finance on public projects. Joey Gardiner reads the tea leaves
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