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...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...
...The building’s features — such as its V-shaped roof and wood-beamed ceilings — are typical of Lautner’s mid-century style....
...Los Angeles and Santa Monica have both made retrofitting all vulnerable buildings mandatory but plenty of other cities continue to resist....
...Downtown LA Proper is full of those elements that have made the brand’s success in San Francisco and Austin (and, more recently, Santa Monica): these range from outrageously cool-looking public spaces, in...
...Monica Mutsvangwa, information minister, received a jab of the Sinopharm vaccine on Monday....
...She argued that while markets were pricing in a V-shaped recovery for the US economy, “we are expecting something less resilient”, after US jobless claims rose back above 1m last week....
...But while I was working at the Georges V in Paris, I asked a customer if I could make him a Manhattan my way....
...(To quote one interview: “Nicola Benedetti looks like an Italian screen goddess: think Sophia Loren, Monica Vitti and, latterly, Monica Bellucci....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Then, in 1974, came the Rumble in the Jungle: Ali v George Foreman....
...Rory Hyde, curator of contemporary architecture at the V&A Museum, describes it as one of the architectural masterpieces of the 20th century....
...Economic proposals Left v right A quarter of a century ago, before the wave of crises that hit emerging markets in the late 1990s, Brazil became a model of liberal reform....
...It has been designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon, whose previous work includes the George V in Paris, The Savoy in London and the Four Seasons in Florence....
...(Gizmodo) Lunch with Sean Penn The Oscar-winning actor doesn’t want to eat at Chez Jay, a steaks and beer joint in Santa Monica. He is in debt to “every bookmaker that waterhole hosts”....
...There are swaths of claret velvet worthy of cabinet displays at the V&A or the Met, swirls of painstakingly embroidered gold and crystal, and thousands of hand-painted feathers....
...A few miles away in Santa Monica is another archetypally Los Angeles house that seems to have nothing at all in common with the pristine clarity of Koenig’s house....
...It is 8pm in Beverly Hills and the sun has gone down over Santa Monica Boulevard. A slight breeze ripples the decorative line of flames at the rear of the garden in Simon Cowell’s $34m mansion....
...Twilight, Romney v Obama....
...on exchange, to co-ordinate five full days of meetings, visiting 16 companies, hearing from 25 different executives and covering 300 miles of road as we zig-zagged across the sprawling city from Santa Monica...
...Similarly, Monica Bhaskar, 34, a graduate programme manager at Credit Suisse, says dresses are “smart, easy and stylish; the only co-ordination you need to think about are accessories”....
...Monica Narula, a member of the Raqs Media Collective, an Indian art group, says “trends in China, Korea, Japan, South Africa, the Gulf States, Turkey, Mexico and Brazil have become as significant as points...
...In the 1560s, Albrecht V of Bavaria created his celebrated Kunstkammer to flaunt his collection and lord it over other European princes....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...However, the Santa Monica-based company was conservative in raising its forecast for the year, citing continuing economic uncertainty....
...Post-It Cities is also part of a project organised with the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica....
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