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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts critics | The hotch-potch rebuilding of Paternoster Square |
 | | After a protracted struggle, Paternoster Square Mk2 is finally complete - and St Paul's is now flanked to its north by a gathering of burly office blocks clad in the architectural equivalent of tweed coats. |
 | | Here is a new city square with star-patterned paving, sturdy benches, arcades for rainy days, and, at its heart, a Corinthian column rising from a stone-stepped base and crowned with a torch of gilded fire. |
 | | A mockery of the language of classical architecture, this Paternoster office block is kitsch writ gross, a kind of two fingers up to Wren and Hawksmoor, who worked so hard to create the peerless dome and west towers of St Paul's. |
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