Swish blue chairs sit below naked light-bulbs, swinging from a fashionably-distressed industrial ceiling. On polished concrete walls, inspirational talks are advertised: "Create and fulfil your vision." Through glass "swipe" doors, you are whisked to a private cinema, a plush karaoke room and a theatre with fierce, jagged seating. And above soar 33 storeys of student accommodation. For this isn't a bleeding-edge arts centre or boutique hotel, but Nido, a student residence in Spitalfields, London. The students seem happy, hanging out on the glass and steel balcony. "The views are great," says one from Malaysia. "It's so easy. The location's great and everything's here." It has been claimed,...
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