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6 August 2015

Episode 199

30 minutes

We explore projects that were planned but never realised and wonder how different a city might look if it had received a green light. Featuring a case of protected heritage, the high-speed train in Brazil that never took off, the runner-up of an architecture competition and why Toronto has failed five times to host the Olympics.

6 August 2015

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Chapter 1

Saving 152 to 158 The Strand

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We meet Clementine Cecil, director of Save Britain’s Heritage, the pressure group behind the campaign to save 152 to 158 The Strand, a terrace of historic townhouses that stand on their original medieval plots in the very heart of London.

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High-speed train between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

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A decade after a bullet train between Brazil’s two largest cities was proposed, the project is still stuck. So what went wrong?

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Toronto’s Olympic aspirations

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Toronto has a record of five failed Olympic bids and the city has become a sort of bad case study, making urbanists and academics wonder why such a stable and vibrant city falls short when it comes to sport’s most high-profile games.

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The runner-up

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In the competitive world of architecture, the gap between silver and gold in a bidding contest can be the difference between projects being built or not. ArchDaily editor James Taylor-Foster talks us through what happens to those projects that don’t quite make the top spot.

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