The rising tide of impossible dreams

By Robert Booth Robert Booth Robert Booth 2006-02-17T00:00:00

You can see what the attraction was for Margate's civic leaders. Here was a town with very little to shout about architecturally while all around the world the economic fortunes of towns and cities appeared to be transformed by the introduction of one architectural icon or another.

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