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...Between them, a few solitary visitors in hats and scarves are on a walking tour of the 44 architectural curiosities hidden in the 600-acre grounds – from Frank Gehry’s pick-up-sticks-esque pavilion to Andy...
...“Germany is at its limit,” the country’s president Frank-Walter Steinmeier said last week. He had been hearing “loud calls for help from . . . German cities” and took them “very seriously”, he said....
...Why In its elevated position outside the city, Boars Hill has rural walks and views of Oxford’s famous “dreaming spires”....
...As centuries passed, spires soared in other places where the Virgin was beheld by mortal eyes — Lourdes, Fátima and elsewhere....
...“People think Maine is the ends of the earth,” Frank says. “And in some ways it is.”...
...According to Mike Tracy in Knight Frank’s Hampstead office, Hampstead is “the prime north London spot, a notch above Highgate”....
...The massive sales model we leave behind articulates what is difficult to see from ground level: the building’s steps and setbacks, the faceted spire and crown....
...Four Seasons, the care home provider, is in the process of being broken up after being taken over by creditors, and Spire Healthcare, which has 39 hospitals, warned in March that it had agreed a covenant...
...Back in 2007, work started on Santiago Calatrava’s Chicago Spire, a drill-bit skyscraper that never made it beyond the enormous round hole of its foundations....
...Verbenas, bright new varieties of impatiens, gerberas and a salvia called Mystic Spires Blue have been raised above ground....
...Frank himself had two offices: one a grand marble-lined club room, the other a secret eyrie in the spire....
...But after piling works were completed a year ago, the Spire building site fell silent....
...In 2014, Mr Arnault opened the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton, a contemporary art museum in Paris, which will one day be gifted to the city....
...Its flat expanse of land and distant church spire reminded him of home, and the Dutch motif of tree-lined path, implying life as a journey, always attracted him....
...Tired of waiting, buyers have decided to push ahead, says Tom Bill, head of London Residential Research at Knight Frank....
...The modest houses and church spire occasionally emerge when the lake is drained. There was an upside to the flood....
...Julian Evans, head of healthcare at Knight Frank, said that a cut in rent remained essential as BMI was struggling to “maintain properties or invest in plant and equipment such as upgrading MRI scanners...
...Following the release of the damning note, Bunzl’s shares went from trading at around 2,300p to 2,100p in a day, prompting chief executive Frank Van Zanten to buy in near the low at 2,135p....
...In recent years, young professionals — and their companies, since office rents have spiralled — have found home-hunting in the city of dreaming spires more of a nightmare....
...In the same year, the Landmark Pinnacle will become one of the tallest residential buildings in Europe, just beaten by another Canary Wharf development, the 861-unit Spire London....
...At one end of the gardens, the spire of St Gabriel’s Church can be seen through the branches of mature plane trees....
...Banks and insurers led the wider market higher in anticipation of a loosening of the 2010 Dodd-Frank act....
...Frank Barber spawned a family of journalists, all of whom went to Oxford. My twin, Stephen, is a banker and inveterate letter writer to newspapers....
...Think of Frank Lloyd Wright or Le Corbusier. Or, perhaps, go back even further, to Andrea Palladio or to Michelangelo....
...Jean Nouvel built the gleaming winery, and Frank Gehry the music pavilion....
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