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...From the Pompidou in Paris and the Lloyd’s Building in London to airports at Heathrow and Madrid, his was an architecture revelling in technology, engineering and modernity....
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...In the US, after the excesses of Art Nouveau, Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence arguably restored the reputation of stained glass, particularly in the domestic sphere, with his hundreds of inventive, geometric...
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...Senior executives from Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander and Nationwide were summoned to a meeting with City minister Andrew Griffith after former UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage claimed...
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...In a meeting before Hunt’s intervention, senior executives from Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander and Nationwide had met City minister Andrew Griffith where they committed to upholding clients’...
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...Lloyd Austin, the US secretary of defence, said on Sunday he was “concerned about potential escalation” of fighting in the region....
...Lloyds Banking Group will contact 2.4mn savings customers over the coming weeks who it believes may be able to switch to other savings products....
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...O’Gorman, Mathias Goeritz, Javier Senosiain and Carlos Lazo created between them a strange oeuvre of underground architecture which soaks up influences from Indigenous iconography, Antoni Gaudí, Frank Lloyd...
...Andrew Lloyd Webber once saw it in the window of a Chelsea junk shop but his granny wouldn’t lend him the £50 he’d have needed....
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...The BoE also courted the UK’s largest banks, including HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest....
...The world’s largest insurance marketplace Lloyd’s of London is, famously, named after the coffee shop in which it was founded....
...The UK’s biggest lenders — Barclays, HSBC, NatWest and Lloyds — would still need to comply with ringfencing rules because of the size of their investment banking arms....
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...Along with plenty of his own work (the yellow Renault HQ in Swindon and a wonderful drawing of an unrealised megastructure for Hammersmith Broadway) there are drawings by Archigram, Jan Kaplicky, Frank Lloyd...
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