Gold standards

In his Gold Medal address (News February 18), Frei Otto criticised the interest of investors in making symbols and money rather than “a place for humans to live in”. A view perfectly illustrated by your adjacent report on Leeds’s new iconic, wow-factored, “starchitect”-designed tower.

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