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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis

Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.

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The unexpected parallels between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Wellcome Collection

With the news of a sequel in development, Russell Dornan explores parallels between ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and Wellcome Collection.

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Designing better mental health wards

Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.

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A nose through Blythe House

Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.

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  • Architecture: a lock and key. Wood engraving by [E. H.].
  • Architecture: a lock and key with gothic ornament. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing.
  • Engineering: a lock, showing the key, and a loom, with shuttle. Engraving by Porter after J. Farey, junior.
  • Technology: a Russian padlock and key. Wood engraving.
  • Architecture: wrought iron lock. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1846, after E. H.
  • Architecture: a lock with gothic ornament. Wood engraving after E. H..
  • Technology: details of a lock mechanism. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Locks: the mechanism of a lock. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Architecture: four large keys in decayed condition. Wood engraving.
  • Engineering: a lock, and a carriage. Engraving by E. Kennion after C. Varley.
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