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Here's a safe prediction:

Vinoly won't make the slightest difference to the social deprivation of East Manchester, nor will al-Mubarak.

Architecture cannot cure deprivation at any level. It never has and it never will. All it ever does is displace it from one place to another, or manipulate the illusion of change.

But Vinoly wouldn't be the first architect to either (a) fall for this kind of claptrap, or (b) deceive himself and others that architects are anything other than servants to the ruling socieconomic system.

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