Should Euston Arch be raised from the dead?

Yes

William Cook
Rejoice! Rejoice! Fifty-four years after its destruction, Euston Arch has returned to Euston. Well, after a fashion. Four blocks from this lost portico, salvaged from a murky river bed in east London, have been deposited outside the station by Euston Arch Trust, a heroic pressure group that is campaigning to rebuild this much-lamented landmark.

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Tagged1960s, Architecture, Bauhaus, Chiswick Empire, Dan Cruickshank, Dresden, Euston Arch, Euston Arch Trust, Frauenkirche, Greek Revival, Harold macmillan, John Betjeman, Modernism, neoclassicism, Nostalgia, Poundbury, Trains, Woodrow Wyatt

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Should Euston Arch be raised from the dead?

William Cook says a rebuilt Euston Arch would herald an architectural renaissance; Stephen Bayley thinks it would be civic cowardice and a betrayal of progressive Victorian values

Yes

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