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...The floors are all green and slightly Teletubby-ish and James Bond-y. It’s magic. An indulgence I would never forgo is my 1962 Sunbeam Alpine car, which is a thing of rare beauty....
...Ganzfeld: Double Vision by James Turrell is open for free tours....
...Lethaby’s thatched concrete church in Brockhampton, Herefordshire and Le Corbusier’s in Ronchamp to Oscar Niemeyer’s Cathedral of Brasília and Sigurd Lewerentz’s Church of St Peter at Klippan in Sweden....
...Meanwhile a second auditorium complex, this time by the late Oscar Niemeyer, is currently under way, as is another major project by Nouvel....
...The creation of the 221-hectare park on previously uncultivated marshland was a collaborative effort, which included work by the architect Oscar Niemeyer and the landscape designer Otávio Augusto Teixeira...
...James Bond, of course....
...Villa Gardenia, St James, Barbados B$70m ($35m) Where On Barbados’s “Platinum Coast” — named after its white sandy beaches....
...The initiative has seen playful, utopian structures created by architects such as Frank Gehry, Oscar Niemeyer and Rem Koolhaas....
...Captain James McGlashan survived Waterloo, then bet that he could walk 125 miles through the jungle, only to catch malaria....
...Like Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasília, it is grand, antiseptic and utterly alien to the country in which it is located....
...I was in Brazil a few years ago, visiting for a previous job, and was lucky enough to meet Oscar Niemeyer to discuss a work project....
...Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence By Styliane Philippou Yale University Press £35, 256 pages Serious, heavily illustrated study of the last of the great modernist architects, who was born in Brazil in...
...The infrastructure is crumbling and outmoded and the once fashionable interior now has a feel of what might best be described as early-James Bond....
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