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...As architecture critic Edwin Heathcote observed in his book London Caffs, they were “manifestations of the ordinary”. The ones that survive often have a distinctive look and feel....
...Soane was the architect who designed the Bank of England and had it depicted as a ruin by the painter Joseph Michael Gandy....
...The Best stores reverberated with Joseph Gandy’s drawings of John Soane’s Bank of England as a ruin, suggesting an institution as durable as the Roman empire....
...In 2014, a senior official at Singapore’s anti-corruption agency, Edwin Yeo, was sentenced to ten years in prison for the misappropriation of about S$1.76 in public funds....
...In 2014 Edwin Yeo, a senior official at Singapore’s anti-corruption agency, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the misappropriation of S$1.76m of public funds....
...In an interview with Life magazine in 1972, the American scientist Edwin Land explained that he had invented one-step instant photography during a family vacation in 1944, when his daughter Jennifer had...
...In astronomy, Edwin Hubble proved that the Milky Way was just one of many galaxies in an expanding universe and so continued the demotion of mankind from a privileged place in the cosmos that had begun with...
...Photographs: Horst/ Vogue/ Condé Nast; Edwin Smith/ RIBA...
...Last autumn Van Basten asked his captain, Edwin van der Sar, to consult the other players about what to do. Van der Sar called a “group of seven” senior players to his hotel room....
...“I had sometimes 30 people in my front yard digging,” says Clarence Ridgely, a plastics factory supervisor living in Baltimore....
...“Joseph Gandy: An Architectural Visionary in Georgian England” by Brian Lukacher, Thames & Hudson, £40.00. Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic....
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