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...To mark the 150th anniversary of the building this year, Handelsman is unveiling the hotel’s new Midland Grand Dining Room and Gothic Bar....
...The organisation was established in 2014 by the family behind the Kone Corporation — makers of elevators, and one of Finland’s biggest companies....
...home were less delineated, in which shop and innkeepers lived above their premises, in which trading might be done in a church (think of those Dutch paintings of serious men discussing business in vast gothic...
...And there’s Someone Knows Something, put out by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, about true-crime mysteries. That was great because who doesn’t love a true-crime story?”...
...“I had always had a passion for buildings, and found myself immersed in this extraordinary, High Victorian gothic architecture of the town hall, which was amazing....
...His reputation was secured and his grateful creditors contributed to the Gothic memorial that still dominates Edinburgh’s Princes Street....
...Whenever I go to tend my vegetables, it’s a constant rebuke, like the black cat in the Edgar Allan Poe story, though a shed can’t quite muster the same pitch of gothic anguish....
...Everything is in a state of order thanks in part to the Victorian origin story: nationalisation was funded by the relatively wealthy City of London Corporation, the financial sector’s governing district,...
...Somehow, modernism lost and gothic won....
...“Gothic buildings have two walls flanking a central nave. These walls are supported from the exterior by flying buttresses....
...On Douglas Head, Chrystals is marketing a neo-gothic castle, built around 1830, for £3.95m. The home has eight bedrooms, three acres and views over the bay....
...It is the gothic fashion, the extreme pretentiousness, the learning of craft, the exuberant hope, the tolerance for the different, the dark and the downright strange....
...Luke Scott’s debut feature is a biotech Frankenstein, right down to the Gothic location — an isolated mansion in a forest — and the creature’s yearning for tenderness....
...You can almost hear St Peter’s, Brighton, before you see its towering neo-Gothic stonework....
...In the Gothic splendour of London’s Royal Courts of Justice, Hardman racked up judgments against Ablyazov that would exceed $4bn....
...But to consider Michele some beatnik bohemian who accidentally found himself at the creative helm of such a vast corporation is to underestimate his obsessional fascination with the brand....
...The “lost decade” of the 1990s signalled the end of much postwar certitude, including the promise of life-long employment in a large corporation....
...Cunard is now a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, the Miami-based group that is the world’s largest operator of cruise ships....
...Fourth Estate, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$27 This epic feat of storytelling about the lives of a horse-breeding dynasty in Kentucky confirms Morgan as a torchbearer for the new southern Gothic...
...Carlos V of Spain said priests who plonked a Gothic cathedral in the middle of Cordoba’s Great Mosque had tainted the exceptional with the ordinary....
...Italy’s business elite – senior executives from blue-chip companies such as Telecom Italia and Vodafone plus high-ranking government officials – filled a renaissance palazzo across from Milan’s gothic cathedral...
...Fermilab’s Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall is a 16-storey tower with a sci-fi form, like the HQ of a space-age corporation....
...He traverses Sicily and then crosses back to the mainland, ending in Otranto, a town in the tip of Italy’s “heel”, site of the castle made famous in Horace Walpole’s gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1764...
...Its chief is also a fan of global corporations, “the new darlings of the world”....
...With industry in decline, opportunities for designers to work for big corporations started to disappear....
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