The word centenary has appeared in 45 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 12 in “It Was Once Britain’s ‘Best’ New Building. Soon, It May Be Rubble” by Lynsey Chutel. She writes about the Centenary Building, completed in 1995. It was once the glass-and-concrete triumph of the University of Salford, outside the northern city of Manchester, but now the university deems the building obsolete.
As the glass, steel and concrete went up, the university’s leadership at the time decided the building’s unveiling would also mark the centenary of the school’s founding.
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