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...Martínez Lapeña-Torres Architects did a wonderful job, with the new sections being understated and the old house restored to even more garish colours than before....
...The five triangular prisms of his haunting skyline sculpture, the Torres de Satélite (1958), designed with Mathias Goeritz, is perhaps Mexico City’s best-known public artwork....
...Better known now, probably, for his urban-scale sculptures (notably the vivid sculptural skyline Torres de Satélite designed with Luis Barragán in 1957), Goeritz is represented here by a huge snake winding...
...From the 29-storey Torre Coblanca, Benidorm’s first high-rise (1966), to the incredible 26-storey Torre de Benidorm (1975), his buildings spanned the sleek international style to the expressive late Modernism...
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...The opening to the private sector will also begin to take hold and some benefits could be seen from the devaluation,” Vidal said....
...Cuban economist and reform advocate Ricardo Torres said the move to open up the economy would help create jobs and control inflation....
...It reminds me of something Gore Vidal said, in fact: “It’s not enough that I succeed. I want to see my friends fail.” Though, saying that, how many of them were ever his “friends” is unclear....
...And today I don’t think you can do anything without aiming for sustainability,” says Sergio Vidal, the developer....
...Ditto for young Miguel Torres when he had some new wines to show off....
...Jane Owen Illustrations by Chris Wormell Letter in response to this article: Enchanting Wormell / From Edwin Allingham...
...Vidal suggested that this was a new generation of airport, that this was a “gathering place”, a “piazza”, a place people would want to come to whether they were flying or not....
...The city of words and fading signs that surrounds the site of the new Whitney Museum is meaty, writes Edwin Heathcote....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic...
...Madrid-based Mr Vidal was brought in to execute a more affordable, Foster-style wavy roof....
...Luis Vidal, Terminal 2’s architect, described airports as “the cathedrals of the 21st century”. I appreciate that he has to talk up his project, but, fortunately, it is untrue....
...Matt, Betsy and Brad were painted by Horacio Torres; her youngest, Peter, was painted at the age of 16 by her late nephew, Bruno Fonseca. “Portraits are magical, I think....
...But some of the more subversive works inside, from Félix González-Torres’ to Tom Sachs’ consumerist critiques in materials from hard candies to bodged foamboard construction, make Piano’s globalised architectural...
...Edwin Heathcote on the world’s most liveable cities 4. Simon Kuper on football’s data revolution 5. Inside McKinsey, by Andrew Hill ……………………………………....
...ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumoner with photographs by Iwan Baan, Lars Müller Publishers, RRP£38 Torre David in Caracas...
...French architect Jean Nouvel’s Torre Agbar also became an instant icon – a contemporary of London’s Gherkin, its iridescent sheath makes it the more elegant of the two....
...He made his name internationally with Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe on the banks of the Seine; his Torre Agbar in Barcelona is one of the few really elegant and inventive skyscrapers of recent years; and...
...His Torre Agbar in Barcelona redefined the city’s skyline whilst a recent apartment block in Manhattan (40 Mercer St) caused a real stir....
...gorgeous buildings – from the exquisite Institut du Monde Arabe on the banks of the Seine (with which he made his name exactly 20 years ago) to the glorious, colour-saturated, pixellated shell of Barcelona’s Torre...
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