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...Monet grew up in Le Havre and knew every detail of ships’ riggings, dockside cranes and chimneys....
...Abandoned office blocks, half-finished developments surrounded by barbed wire and cranes standing idly on the skyline: in an economic downturn, real estate is one of the first sectors to suffer....
...At Start, group member Ellie sits undoing a vast pile of paper origami cranes — which symbolise peace — sourced in Hiroshima....
...At first glance, the harbour is hardly perceptible in its shroud of mist and steam; then forms – docks, cranes, chimneys – heave into view....
...There are also a pair of beautiful interwar prints by CRW Nevinson that capture the vitality of the river as an urban artery, a place in which the cranes compete with Wren’s church spires and the spewing...
...Today, the number of cranes on the skyline rivals the city’s many minarets....
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