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Adapting old buildings radically to the new climate must take priority over preserving their historic fabric.

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permitting The review a project must pass before it can be built, and the argument that it now blocks more than it protects.

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  1. Nick Harkaway Pen name of Nicholas Cornwell, British novelist
    Insuring (in many cases, permitting) radical adaptation of old buildings to new climate is going to be a necessary struggle, starting now. The mindset which protects dodgy Victorian brickwork slapped over an older structure as vital architectural history must yield to livability.

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