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...With marble and dark wood (both sourced in Spain), earthy tones and a mid-century design aesthetic employed throughout, Thompson is where Mad Men meets Madrid....
...Complete with long infinity pool, fitness area and treatment room, the villa is all rigorous right angles, glass and untreated volcanic stone – a total departure from classic whitewashed-Cyclades charm....
...Best of all: a small private beach, right below the huge infinity pool....
...April 4 to 28; further information and tickets here ‘La bohème’ and ‘Swan Lake’, Arsht Center Florida Grand Opera presents Puccini’s portrait of bohemian Paris in the 19th-century....
...“In Israel, anything newly built has to take account of existing landmarks,” says Aby Rosen, co-founder and principal of RFR Holding LLC, which was responsible for converting a 19th-century French hospital...
...Completed in the early ninth century, Borobudur is quite simply the largest and most sophisticated Buddhist monument in the world....
...It’s like a view to infinity; an escape portal. And the best gift I’ve received recently is a pair of Birkenstocks from Rick Owens, of his own design....
...In Cáceres, José Ramón Bello, the city’s head of urban planning, is adamant that Infinity’s plans will go no further....
...Hundreds of feet up, trees and shrubs shade an infinity pool looking out over a seemingly infinite city....
...Built by the communist governments that ruled Mongolia until 1990, they tried to offer the promise of urban life to sceptical herdsmen....
...Our first major temporary exhibition, Century City, masterminded by Blazwick and a team of 12 international curators, also came in for criticism....
...this thesis, the show is full of images of frighteningly homogenous landscapes of agricultural monoculture, fields and greenhouses, stretching from the Mexican to the Canadian border to China — perhaps to infinity...
...His mission, he says, is to create the world’s first 21st-century urban district. “People ask me, ‘are you surprised by the level of controversy?’ I actually am not,” he says....
...France Groupe Mercure is selling a 16th-century, nine-bedroom property in Gard for €1.25m, complete with arrow slits, used when it was attacked as a protestant refuge during the Wars of Religion....
...It includes staff quarters, shaded verandas and an infinity pool....
...He certainly produced plenty of them, and they are now a mainstay of art and design fairs, almost like a parody of groundbreaking 20th-century European art....
...Fox News generates annual profits of more than $1.5bn and is among 21st Century Fox’s most profitable businesses....
...A few centuries ago, he would’ve been a King Arthur.”...
...At her suggestion I walked inland through residential streets to the former home of Jorge Amado, author of Dona Flor and her Two Husbands and Brazil’s pre-eminent novelist of the 20th century....
...“They decided to use the profit to begin an urban greening programme.”...
...One Central Park — a residential tower featuring “vertical gardens” — opened on the site of a 19th-century brewery in 2013....
...October 26-February 14, barbican.org.uk Slideshow photographs: Eames Office LLC; Antonia Mulas/Eames Office LLC; Timothy Street-Porter/Eames Office LLC; Library of Congress, Washington DC/Eames Office LLC...
...However, the city’s northern suburbs have a longstanding reputation for drugs-related violence and urban blight....
...By building out in one decade the modern infrastructure that the U.S. took a century to create, the Party pushed GDP growth up into double digits, with most of that growth coming from investment, squeezing...
...His five Camps Bay Beach villas cost between R29.5m and R37m (£2.1m-£2.6m) and have granite walls and floors, and infinity pools on the terraces, where the sound of waves drowns out the roar of Lamborghinis...
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