A fine mess
Jun 01, 2022
2 minutes
Edited by Annunciata Elwes
WE shape our buildings; thereafter our buildings shape us,’ declared Winston Churchill in 1943, insisting on the reconstruction of the bomb-damaged Commons Chamber to its ‘old form, convenience and dignity’. More than 20 years earlier, as Secretary of State for War, he was ensconced in the Old War Office on Whitehall, a stately edifice completed in 1906, sold off by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 2016,).
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