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...Andre made his name in the early 1970s with starkly simple works featuring rows of paving stones and bricks, later triggering the apoplexy of the British tabloids over his work “Equivalent VIII”, an arrangement...
...The room had been staged with a brick-coloured rug, cabinet and long wall lights, and it made me think that the models were like guests at a soirée for the art crowd in a chic apartment....
...Rows of wall-mounted cupboards can be restrictive.”...
...From her new apartment in Tobacco Warehouse — the largest brick building in the world — Charlotte Beddows, 29, is relishing her front-row views of the Liverpool waterfront....
...The bright green of Paulin’s doughnut-shaped C Club Chair chimes with the rows of Grenache vines that march up to within a few metres of the windows....
...Row....
...Here three towers have sprouted in a mellower version of standard Leeds red brick: one houses the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel, the other two apartment blocks, and there are bars and shops to cater to them...
...In a small factory next to Newhaven harbour, sections of a new apartment block shuffle along an assembly line....
...Helplessly, they watched as Italian police opened their container, discovering 63 bricks of cocaine covered in anti-scanning foil and hidden in banana boxes....
...He did not settle on the self-effacing brick facades of the 18th century or the brasher freestyle of the brick and terracotta Edwardian but on the solid stone of the more classical, French-influenced blocks...
...We follow them on a hazardous trip across Europe, hidden in lorries, squeezed into car-boots, freezing in grim apartments....
...Blakeney (permanent population: around 800) is one of its most atmospheric villages, hard by the North Norfolk Coastal Path, with old brick houses lining close, sweet little lanes, and front-row seats to...
...Sometimes a farmer and his cow; old boats slowly swaying in the waters; mud-brick houses crushed under the sun....
...There were the guitar shops on Denmark Street — repositories of desire — a snooker club in a subway beneath Centre Point, the dingy Marquee Club, the fading end of what had been London’s longest row of bookshops...
...Recently, Sangakkara turned his hand to property, financing a nearby apartment development....
...“Half the bricks would get stolen,” he says. The waiter returns with our soup, which both of us enjoy (“Sehr gut,” is Sorokin’s verdict)....
...A bit further north, from about 41st to 62nd Streets, is the historic stretch of condominiums known as Millionaires’ Row....
...These new towers reflect that back at us in tangible brick and glass....
...Hutton bricks are baked into some of New York’s most iconic landmarks, from Yankee Stadium to the Empire State Building to who knows, maybe my brownstone apartment in Brooklyn....
...The squat, brick-built premises are undeniably ugly, and the queue at the bar is always long — but beauty is skin deep and if there is a better located pub in the city, I am yet to find it....
...The Montecatini office building on Via della Moscova – its façade punctured by grid-like rows of windows – offers a glimpse of their vision....
...The area, often referred to as a “village”, is dominated by rows of Georgian town houses and red-brick mansion blocks....
...A thirtysomething dressed head-to-toe in The Row, her gallery has recently hosted a pop-up exhibition at fashion label Connolly....
...New York’s skyline was redrawn and 57th Street became known as Billionaires Row. The supertalls inspire a range of feelings....
...Books are like bricks: substantial, hand-sized building blocks for constructing a room. They are also like wallpaper, a decorative device in their own right....
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