Role model

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Praised for its innovative use of materials and response to a difficult site, Ian Ritchie's production centre for Plymouth's Theatre Royal was one of the highlights of last year's Stirling Prize shortlist. In a city where architecture barely rises above the very ordinary, is this the shape of better things ...

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