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...Speaking to me via video call from one of those in the Porsche Design Tower Miami, designed by the same architect as his new Bentley home, he pans his camera out from his desk to show me five supercars parked...
...Housed in the Unité d’habitation — the most famous of the Swiss-French architect’s modernist housing developments throughout Europe — the 21 bedrooms are a monument to a modernist utopia that might have...
...Elsewhere at the fair, Molteni&C, a leading Italian furnishing company and one of the founders of the Salone back in 1961, is launching a marble and lacquered wooden table by Belgian architect Vincent Van...
...Retrofits will reduce household bills, too: just 10 per cent of homes in England built before 1919 have an energy-efficiency rating of C or higher, according to government data, compared with 40 per cent...
...“There are no equivalent 100 per cent mortgages in the standard market,” says David Hollingworth of UK mortgage broker L&C....
...Speaking at a Bloomberg event yesterday, Mark Carney, a Gfanz architect, was asked about the FT’s reporting....
...Altice would go on to flirt with a $185bn bid for Charter in 2017 and, in 2020, Drahi attempted to expand with a $8.4bn (C$11.1bn) offer to buy Cogeco, one of Canada’s oldest private media companies....
...The blue-chip US S&P 500 has soared by almost a fifth this year, reaching a new all-time peak this week....
...In further reading, David Deacon, whose record in talent management includes stints at Credit Suisse, MasterCard and Capita, adds the missing fifth C — culture — to the four I mentioned in my column last...
...Even the double-A-rated tranche — awarded the stellar rating by both Kroll and S&P — has slipped to a junk rating of double B....
...His annual January letter to the chief executives of the S&P 500 is a must-read, and last year he called on them to take a more active role in addressing societal issues, from retirement to infrastructure...
...Adam Cox launched Cavendish Pianos after the Yamaha-owned Kemble, Britain’s only surviving piano maker, moved production to east Asia in 2009....
...In 2015, computer engineer Jack Zhang and architect Max Li opened a coffee house in Melbourne’s high-rise Docklands district....
...The agreement — the result of weeks of talks with asset managers holding 17 per cent of DVMT, including Dodge & Cox, Elliott Management, Canyon Partners and Mason Capital — sets a headline price of $120...
...As if the architect of the Pentagon had tried his hand at a live-in lighthouse....
...This is reflected in the comments made by the C-Suite executives in these brief profiles....
...Jo Cox, Labour’s representative for Batley and Spen, near Leeds, spends her weeknights afloat....
...JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are Allergan’s financial advisers, while Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Latham & Watkins, and Arthur Cox are giving legal advice....
...then isn’t A better than C?...
...Chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox spent £3m to fight off the fund’s efforts to place three directors on her board, only to compromise and accept two of them at the last minute....
...“Investors who stick to a natural yield strategy should be better placed to navigate choppy waters,” says Mr Cox....
...the circulation of outside people” (WSJ) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +260.50 (+1.75%) at 15,137 Topix up +19.94 (+1.64%) at 1,238 Hang Seng up +337.60 (+1.49%) at 22,987 US markets S&P...
...Brazilian television showed protesters occupying the roof of the modernist Congress building, designed by the country’s late architect Oscar Niemeyer, as the protests widened to become a general expression...
...“They enjoyed sweeping deference in the courts but now you are seeing some cracks,” says James Cox, Duke University law professor....
...For every Fifth Avenue, there’s a Mumbai slum; for every Sorbonne, there’s a D.C. high school guarded by metal detectors....
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