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...Big Green has big demands of the US’s political elite — it wants to be at the table. And it has big plans to make big money....
...“My dad’s a builder,” says the 30-year-old lawyer, who recently moved to the public sector....
...It has been some years since good design was the main requisite for success in fashion; today’s most successful labels are world-builders and storytellers, for which Stokey-Daley has a knack....
...Its builders crafted 90-tonne columns to support the weight. They also devised a custom cooling system for the soil within the platform so that tree roots would not overheat....
...Further reading From the FT Gavyn Davies: Global growth is holding up despite the trade wars Rana Foroohar: The US and China must control their elites The EU warns Trump that auto tariffs would hit almost...
...Relentless, uncompromising, visionary, sometimes cruel, the former racing driver founded the world’s most glamorous and elite car brand....
...elite residential districts such as Bloomsbury and Soho, while in the 1670s St James’s along with Mayfair were beginning to coalesce into the leisurely West End....
...Specialists in custom-built big yachts, such as Germany’s Lürssen and the Dutch Feadship, report healthy order books....
...From How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt, published on June 16, 2015 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright by Stephen Witt, 2015....
...We even imported Cotswold stone to build the perimeter dry-stone walls (initially impounded by US customs because it contained English snails), and took over workmen to teach the Mexican builders the art...
...“The accountant says to me, ‘A bit for them and a bit for you and they won’t give you any grief’,” he says of the revenue and customs department....
...And they got it all for much less than a traditional custom-built home designed by a New York City architect, she estimates....
...With clients in step with the Paris elite, the builders and decorators also went on to revive the lost arts of the east; at the very least any proper Cairo residence was obliged to have a salon arabe....
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