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A forever home

I HAVE FOLLOWED THE CAREER OF David Kohn, a youngish architect (at least young by the standards of architects), originally from South Africa, trained in Cambridge and New York on a Fulbright Scholarship, who I first met when he designed a pop-up restaurant called Flash on the ground floor of the old Museum of Mankind building in Burlington Gardens.

Not long afterwards he designed, jointly with the artist Fiona Banner, a boat-like structure on the roof of the Hayward Gallery which you could stay in overnight through Living Architecture, the organisation

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