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The good life, with chefs Daniel Humm and Alice Waters

Life and Art from FT Weekend

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The Cavena Building

In buenos aires, there's a skyscraper called the edificio cavena. When it went up, corinna's building was celebrated as the tallest in latin america. But she really built it in revenge. The family disapproved of her as new money. And this new money skyscraper blocked the view that their mansion had of their private church. Edwin wrote about this phenomenon of spite architecture,. and the piece is in our show notes.

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