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...Today, many architects are creating wild flower meadows on tops of buildings. One example is Ashraya, another RIBA Award-winning house, located in a rural village in Hertfordshire....
...General manager André Cheminade tells me that this is already becoming “a place of architectural, as well as horological, pilgrimage”....
...Harumi’s parents met in Japan, where Balthus had been sent by the French culture minister André Malraux to select works for an exhibition in France. “She was a young student and she was translating....
...And the park has secured a little place in history as the first drop zone for a parachute jump: on October 22 1797, André-Jacques Garnerin rose 700m above the park in a montgolfière, before detaching the...
...The Royal Academy is the final venue of a tour (while Ordrupgaard is closed for rebuilding) that began at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris as “The Hansens’ Secret Garden” exhibition....
...Meadows recently handed the baton to Jasper Morris MW. He and his wife bought Wasserman-Hone’s converted barn in 1991 and Morris dedicated his book Inside Burgundy to her....
...Important examples featured in the collections of Jacob Epstein and André Breton, and more recently in the Royal Academy’s sell-out Oceania show....
...A path climbs steeply through meadows, where families are out cutting hay in the midday glare. “Are you not too hot?” André asks a woman who can’t be younger than 65....
...In this creation, he plays abstract games with an urgent flute concerto by French composer Marc-André Dalbavie....
...A recent chat with the gardeners at Highgrove confirms this (they import seed-laden meadow hay from elsewhere and lay it on top of the meadow areas, for instance)....
...Villages were pinned to the horizon by church spires, whitewashed and pencil-sharp; cranes, which nested on electricity poles, foraged in meadows....
...Gone are the tablecloths, the silverware and the discreet net curtains – in their place comes bare walnut tables, bottle-green banquettes and windows gazing out on to a new “meadow” planted along Davies...
...He created the John F Kennedy memorial site in Runnymede – a water meadow near the River Thames in Berkshire – the gardens at Shute House in Dorset, and the unfinished Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas....
...At the end of our ride, we came across a meadow of wild flowers, sown below the castle, that had gone brown with the end of summer....
...Just over 70 years later, I stood in one of the meadows outside Northampton that I knew in my boyhood....
...The drive up to Coalmont, Grundy County, Tennessee, winds through beautiful countryside – hardwood forests, open meadows, meandering creeks....
...Patches of wildflowers raised my interest with their sensible take on “meadow” style....
...Out of Context features 11 12ft-plus photographs suspended in woodland, along hedges or in open meadows, while nine artists have created offbeat sculptural installations using unusual materials....
...Then we’ll just have a couple of sessions a day at Flushing Meadows. Just take it one day at a time and the results will work themselves out.”...
...For starters, Flushing Meadows was in the midst of a mass movement to have Andre Agassi, who was playing for the last time, canonised by the Vatican before the last ball was struck....
...The only other players who have the history as previous champions, and the form to worry Federer or Nadal, are Lleyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick and Andre Agassi....
...The Swiss defeated the veteran American Andre Agassi 6-3 2-6 7-5 3-6 6-3 in an epic encounter that also spanned two days after Federer led by two sets to one when play was halted on Wednesday night....
...The Australian, who won his first major at Flushing Meadow in 2001, has shown more of his old prowess this year....
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