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...Day, who trained under leading grotto builder Belinda Eade, encourages clients to factor in a shell-lined retreat, “For escapism — and drama,” he says....
...For the medieval baron, whose castle was both home and fortification, mastery of all he surveyed was critical to survival....
...Mostly, they used local and master builders to meet the building’s listed, planning and ecological needs....
...Outside was the ancient necropolis itself, supposed to be one of the most important in the Mediterranean region, in a peaceful setting of rocks and olive groves....
...It will have to sell the Evergrande assets in a market where valuations are in flux and where Beijing has prioritised the financial interests of homeowners over builders....
...It was later sold to a well-known rock star, whom Game declines to name....
...Smart reads Levelling up A hitherto obscure lender, Little Rock’s Bank OZK, has become one of the most prolific lenders to Manhattan property developers....
...One morning, the builders put up the scaffolding and dropped the original slates into sacks of rubble, sending up little clouds of dust....
...would be unrecognisable to builders 800 years ago....
...castles in the air....
...What An oceanfront property that has won a total of nine Master Builder and Housing Industry Architecture awards....
...We stopped for lunch at Nepenthe, a restaurant on Big Sur, built high on the rock....
...For so long, it felt like we had been pushing that rock up the hill, trying to do the impossible. There were plenty of moments when the future of Pixar was in doubt....
...The lecturer Adam Walker (1730-1821) wrote that the “beautiful rock is like the age-tinted wall of a prodigious castle”. Wordsworth visited, as did JMW Turner, who painted at Gordale Scar....
...The builders carrying out the job reported numerous strange goings on and insisted on working in pairs for fear of being alone in the dark recesses....
...In each, it seems, the neolithic builders responded to the fells above....
...Davies is also a wannabe rock star....
...In the paternity suit, Louise Sage Stanford said the family once lived together in a $10m mansion known as the Wackenhut Castle after its builder, the former FBI agent and private security tycoon George...
...borrow more than the value of their home) and a more conservative approach, adopted only as the Rock was already crumbling....
...On a prime site in Newcastle, builders are hard at work erecting an imposing building with a curved facade and expansive plate glass windows....
...The share price declines saw £5.05bn wiped off the value of British banks and £852m off builders, while concerns over the direction of the economy also hit the pound....
...Contact and location: Near Elephant and Castle tube, 103 Gaunt Street, London SE1. T: 020 7740 8729....
...“The town of Recas, in the west, is dominated by Scottish-style castles with lions on the gateposts, turrets on the roofs and white marble dwarfs in the gardens....
...Northern Rock was the best performing blue chip. Lifted by reports of further interest from private equity groups, shares in the mortgage lender rose 8.8 per cent to 172½p....
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