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On Design 52: Who was Austen St Barbe Harrison?

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3 August 2017

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After the British captured Jerusalem in 1917, they decided to preserve everything behind the 16th-century walls of the Old City. But outside, modernity was calling and Austen St Barbe Harrison, the city’s chief architect, would change the city forever.

3 August 2017

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