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| | Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Coming to a high street near you ... |
 | | Tesco planned to open 59 new stores during 2003-4, "over 90% on greenfield sites", which sounds good, but in practice means a bright, brash Tesco in a historic street near you. |
 | | Tesco's other shrewd architectural moves include restoring the glamorous art deco Hoover Building on Western Avenue at Perivale, west London, and converting the former Provincial bank in Royal Avenue, Belfast, a grandiloquent 19th-century classical pile, into one of its most respected stores. |
 | | Tesco is proud of its new superstores in Kidderminster, Tetbury and Nailsea, and yet it would benefit the company greatly if it was to use these architects to take a fresh look at its latest generation of super-bland city-centre stores. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1356680,00.html (1138 words) |
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