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Ian McKellen, 87, will appear as a hologram in Simon Stephens’s play An Ark, filmed by 52 cameras, at Manchester’s Factory International from March 27 (BBC).
Mary Duggan was asked to design 80 council homes on a Croydon hillside and instead fit in 157 among five brick towers and a bluebell wood. Lion Green Road has just won Britain’s Stirling Prize for architecture, after a planning application that drew 257 objections (The Guardian).
The Centre Pompidou’s first outpost in the Americas, in Paraná, Brazil, now opens in 2029 and construction hasn’t begun; architect Solano Benítez says he was given six months to finish the design and took a year (The Art Newspaper).
Writer Snigdha Poonam accepted a book-club invitation and joined a Zoom of 20 people with cameras off, all addressing her as “Professor” (The Dial). Of course: it was all a scam. Why are scammers targeting book authors?
Tom Di Nardo, who has died at 89, spent 36 years designing high-voltage wiring for Peco, Philadelphia’s electric utility, and reviewed music at night, filing more than 1,000 stories for the Daily News and Inquirer until 2017 (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
All the stories we collected today are below, organized by topic. see you tomorrow.
Doug