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...Mark Vanhoenacker is a Boeing 787 pilot for British Airways and the author of ‘Imagine a City’ (Chatto & Windus/Knopf)....
...(He also brought banging youth music nights to the usually quiet halls of the V&A.)...
...It was, Collardi reminds me, still the height of the global banking crisis when the tragedy happened. “You could feel on some days that it was a bit of an end-of-the-world sort of time,” he says....
...of Jimi Hendrix, musician (1942-1970) At the height of Jimi Hendrix’s fame in 1967, when his debut album, Are You Experienced, spent 33 weeks in the UK charts, the music star burned his guitar onstage...
...Mugrabi had never been to the V&A until 2020, when she flew over to London, at the height of the pandemic, in a hazmat suit....
...In 2008, she founded RAW Material Company, an independent art space in the city....
...The moment of inspiration came during a year he spent studying abroad in Glasgow when he watched a YouTube video of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey military transport aircraft, which has huge rotors that tilt...
...As the City of London boomed in the late 1980s in the heady days of Big Bang regulatory liberalisation, Boden began studying part-time for an MBA....
...Forte Forte has this divine lilac style with ankle ties — the V cut makes the leg look longer too and compliments a wide foot....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...According to Ray, in Bengal he sat on “Olympian heights”, but in the rest of India he was “only a name”....
...“Sputnik V is being supplied to all the regions of Russia to start mass vaccination as soon as possible.”...
...In the village of Thulasendrapuram, a seven-hour drive from Chennai on the Bay of Bengal and the boyhood home of Ms Harris’ diplomat grandfather P V Gopalan, V Shivakumar is preparing for his second political...
...(FT) Video of the day Saudi Arabia’s mega-project A 170km car-free, carbon-free city the size of Belgium, built in a straight line through a remote part of Saudi Arabia is Mohammed bin Salman’s grand plan...
...They obliged me with beautifully packed plants of anything growable, from C for campanula to V for vitaliana: they arrived within a day of special dispatch....
...Having signed off on unpopular bailouts during the height of the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis a decade ago, the quartet of richer countries are determined to make sure that unprecedented amounts of aid...
...Sebastian and I met in Medellín in 1974, as he reached the city having walked the length of South America from Tierra del Fuego. His goal was Alaska....
...On February 8, at the height of lockdown, just 22 sales were recorded. In Hong Kong, cases of coronavirus began to rise towards the end of January....
...Tesla Sector: Automotive / HQ: Palo Alto, us Some thought Tesla’s $75bn valuation at the start of 2020 was looking bubbly....
...How do you spend summer in your city? We want to hear your tips for making the most of the dog days of summer in the city....
...’s 10 largest provincial cities combined....
...towers there, despite height restrictions that apply in the capital’s elegant historic city centre....
..., shun the city fringes....
...“Things like the height of the door, the tradition of the door knob, the spatial organisation of the flat — it was less culture shock than architectural shock.’’...
...The V&A’s building has been diminished and the other structures have been squeezed together in a kind of police line-up, a height datum roughly given by the rim of the Olympic Stadium (now a hugely subsided...
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