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There’s nothing new about major architectural or engineering disasters brought about by a combination of poor design and shoddy workmanship. There’s plenty of both behind today’s cladding catastrophe. But in this case the cause goes far beyond mere ineptitude to a collective madness that gripped a whole profession for decades: the idea that in Britain’sContinue reading “The architectural madness behind the cladding catastrophe”