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...The architect has taken the image of the grove rather than a single tree as his metaphor and created a decoration as shelter....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first....
...The FT’s Edwin Heathcote described 15 Clerkenwell Close as “perhaps the most sophisticated, witty and thoughtful new building in London in years”....
...Some are excellent — BIG’s twisting towers at Coconut Grove reinterpret Mies’s modernism for an age of shorter attention spans and Renzo Piano’s Eighty Seven Park draws on the nautical metaphors of 1930s...
...From looking up at the serenely calm Grove at Grand Bay towers in Miami, you would never know it though....
...Within its 740 acres are olive and citrus groves, two pools and a tennis court....
...Renderings visualise a paved, winding walkway through a romantic grove as a couple walk unencumbered through the foliage....
...In Only the Paranoid Survive (1996), Intel’s Andy Grove justified his mission by saying he had “always had an urge to teach, to share with others what I’ve figured out for myself”....
...Edwin Heathcote Pop Billie Holiday: The Musician and The Myth, by John Szwed, Heinemann, RRP£20/Viking, RRP$28.95 Myths about musicians are usually more interesting than the musicians themselves....
...and the new owner – fabulously wealthy, a mover and shaker, collector of rare first editions that sit on shelves forever unread – restored the famous house and garden with its iris borders and cypress groves...
...… H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald, Jonathan Cape, RRP£14.99/ Grove Press, RRP$28 Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Macdonald’s account of training a goshawk after the death...
...‘Modern Views’ is published by Assouline on October 25 philipjohnsonglasshouse.org/visit www.bellegrove.org Edwin Heathcote on Alain de Botton’s modernist holiday homes...
...This was run with an iron hand and total secrecy by Brig General Leslie Richard “Dick” Groves, in unlikely tandem with Robert Oppenheimer, its chief scientist....
...Sir Edwin Lutyens made his name designing houses for industrialists, grand banks and memorials....
...Edwin Heathcote Belgrade, Serbia The boundary between Central Europe and the Balkans can be as solid as a wall or as chimeric as a mirage....
...It’s based on an early-20th century colonial mansion, inspired by Edwin Lutyens, and set in 100 acres of newly created parkland and stunning formal gardens....
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