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...There is also The Spiral, a splashy new office tower at the edge of Hudson Yards in New York that features a garden winding around its 65 stories like a vine....
...“The past year has shown people they can do their jobs just as well from here as from anywhere else,” concludes Elizabeth Hanley, president of Windsor Real Estate Inc....
...His latest venture, however, is Stratford’s Manhattan Loft Gardens, where the city’s rich history of garden squares has been reworked in vertical form for generation rent....
...“We have a garden we’ve started in the back yard, and we like to hunt and do a lot of outdoor activities, so we have set up a little target range outside. The land we are on used to be a golf course....
...… Twelve Yards: The Art and Psychology of the Perfect Penalty, by Ben Lyttleton, Bantam Press, RRP£14.99 Another World Cup book, Lyttleton’s Twelve Yards, acquires particular resonance as the knockout...
...Up a flight of stairs and through an overgrown garden, we entered a yard and then a white, boxy bungalow that’s become one of the tastiest, cosiest, funkiest places for lunch in this stretch of the Pacific...
...Why The main house overlooks the eighth hole of The Old Nine, a nine-hole golf course of 3,345 yards that opened in 1961....
...Luk Yu Tea House 24-26 Stanley St, Hong Kong A’Shan 2378 Hongqiao Road, Shanghai, 00 86 21 6268 6583 Kokoromai 2 F 6-18-7, Shirokane, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 00 81 3 108 0072 Bar Pepito 3 Varnishers Yard...
...And you must have a fridge in the back garden, near the swimming pool, because you need to get your cold drinks easily when you’re outside.”...
...remain in the Burlington Gardens space until its lease runs out in 2012....
...“It’s a historic garden city with the same tropical scents as my childhood sanctuary, the Botanical Gardens in Hong Kong.”...
...Imagine if, 20 years ago, an unfamiliar person appeared on your street with a camera, and began patiently photographing everyone’s front garden. He would explain that, no, he was not an artist....
...Nick Varney, chief executive, said the aim was not to take on Disney in its back yard. The world’s two leading theme park operators already compete in California....
...Antony Gormley, ‘Test Sites’, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London SW1, June 4-July 10. ‘Event Horizon’, New York, to August 15....
...Americans are turning in increasing numbers to their back yards to save money, with leading US seed merchants reporting a dramatic surge in early sales of carrots, tomato and pepper plant seeds....
...The land also bears the scars of decades of poverty – collapsed chicken houses, signs advertising “wood for sale”, a faded placard taped to a mailbox printed with the words “Indoor yard sale”....
...There are now more than 100 mosque members, with cars filling the front yard during the Friday Juma’a prayers....
...A substantial, four-bedroom detached house with a garden and a double garage costs about £400,000....
...And the next plan on our agenda is to cover the court yard so we can stage theatrical and operatic events confidently come rain or shine. Tell me about your beautiful gardens....
...As part of the project it will also build the new Madison Square Garden, the concert and sports venue....
...“If we find ourselves needing to hold our costs at £50,000 or something, we can do that because we buy everything by the yard.”...
...And meanwhile, back at the “big house”, as the main building is called, a strange summer phenomenon has overtaken the “lawn”, as the small but distinct patch of green in the centre of the garden dining area...
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