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The WZB, conceived a year later as part of the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) program, seemed to breach the codes of modernism even further. Its pavilions, diagramming historical building types, decked out in bright pink and blue stripes, and huddled behind an ornate late-nineteenth-century entrance block, seemed to many British and European critics to be a betrayal of the ethic of the Modern Movement.
The mass expression of grief following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 looms large in the memory – but it’s far from the only moment of national mourning in history…
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