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...Metaphors for transformation and regeneration arise directly from Ward’s way of working, wresting objects from the flux of life and freezing them in time and space....
...The subtle transformations and echoes of the instruments, coming from behind and the sides, enclosed the audience in something like an audio snow globe, floating with luscious details....
...Ah, the picturesque decay: a lump of granite in howling winds, a sieve for a roof, rattling windows and a marquess flanked by serfs pleading for work while his gambling addiction soaks up all the rent....
...The words “simple”, “clean” and “purity” crop up a lot when they talk about their work, as do granite, steel and polished concrete....
...His love of Campari dates from the time he spent in Italy, where Olympia & York sent him for six months to learn how to run a granite factory. He now has a home in Tuscany....
...The ’40s store, with its tough-looking granite and limestone façade and vast atrium ground floor, was originally designed by Cross & Cross architects in a “conservative modern” style that spoke of America...
...Now they are preparing for a second unlikely transformation, with a bid to change the fortunes of unfashionable Littlestone, Kent (where the pebble beach boasts views of a nuclear power station)....
...There’s something captivating about molten metal: the pure glow, the transformation of permanence into motion....
...So while the floors of the hotel are black granite, the rugs in the rooms have a herringbone design, a nod to the parquetry of Haussmannian Paris....
...There was another effect of oil, too: the transformation of the Scottish National Party from a fringe independence movement into the dominant force in Scottish politics in the 21st century.From the 1970s...
...Some cities have been made almost uninhabitable by a radical transformation from metropolis to “spectapolis”....
...Francisco de la Torre, Málaga’s mayor since 2000, who is widely credited with the city’s transformation, says he wants it to become known for “innovation and sustainability”....
...It is also transformation. Zilber opened a pot of masa, the dough that tortillas are made from, which had been cooked and blended with rice inoculated with Japanese koji mould....
...Adam Granite, head of market development for Universal Music, said that the top 9 music markets in 2017 represented 1bn people but that China, India and Africa represented 4bn people showing the size of...
...A study by Brandon Emmerich, principal at Granite Peak Advisory, shows levels of indebtedness among A-shares is extremely high....
...Such marriages and transformations — some fluid, others brutal — remind us of the Ovidian ties that bind us into our landscape....
...Fridjhon’s sentiments, reinforced recently in an article entitled “SA Wine’s Ongoing Lack of Transformation”, have not been universally welcomed by the wine industry....
...I had been asked to nominate 10 bottles that I thought told the story of the transformation of Portuguese wine over the past 10 years and saw afterwards to my horror that one of them, Barca Velha 1999, has...
...The challenge he set himself was to find a way of portraying the human body, not in the expressionistic manner of his artistic antecedents, but as “a place for dwelling, and for potential transformation”...
...Tate St Ives is to reopen in October following a four-year transformation that will double the amount of exhibition space it has to show modern and contemporary art....
...We return to chatting about the context, York Road, Central Saint Martins, the radical transformation of the city outside....
...Much of the area’s industrial flavour remains, from its granite Belgian block paving to the network of obsolete train tracks that run along its streets....
...John Cummings, 77, a New Orleans lawyer and real estate investor, bought the 1,700-acre property in 1999 and, aided by Seck, began planning its transformation....
...The horseshoe-shaped tubular structure, clad in the same grey Chinese granite as the city’s new pavements, is “the sharpener” for a neighbouring “pencil” — a columnar apartment block with a conical lead...
...“You have seen that transformation over the past six months.”...
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