Megashed

Outside the business pages, it will probably be Tesco the bulldozer that makes headlines, as it is lambasted for supposedly demolishing traditional high streets and replacing small shops with its category-killing megasheds.

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Here, theboxtank (Emily Andersen, Geoff DeOld and Corey Hoelker), a collaborative blog about big-box urbanism and retail, considers the latent architectural possibilities of the now global phenomenon of space enclosing industrially clad megasheds - the potential of which was never underestimated by Cedric Price or Martin Pawley.

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What do we feel when we see the marching lines of pylons, the rising telecommunications masts, the slow-moving rotors of wind generators, the proliferation of huge, windowless plastic-coated distribution megasheds that are redescribing our chosen homeland?

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Anthony Gormley, one of the few people to squeeze any aesthetic interest out of the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, has called megasheds 'the most permanent unconscious memorial to the age of mobility' and said they are 'as much a part of our history as the rural barn'.

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