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...At 15 storeys, it continues to lord it over the John Nash terraces of Pall Mall and the Victoriana of Haymarket’s theatreland below....
...“As a kid, Robert Smithson or Clement Greenberg would come over to the house for dinner, or we’d go to see a show with Jasper Johns,” he says....
...Just over a year ago in this column, I quoted the late investor and financier Sir John Templeton, who said: “To buy when others are desperately selling, and to sell when others are greedily buying, requires...
...Cross Piccadilly and head down St James’s Street to Peter and Alison Smithson’s supremely elegant Economist buildings and plaza (1962-4) (where you might want to try Sake no Hana for an excellent Japanese...
...In 1990 Grundberg advised John Szarkowski, MoMA’s distinguished photography curator, that Sherman and Goldin were “what’s happening”....
...Mary Miss was next door, and Alice Aycock, Robert Smithson, Vito Acconci . . ....
...There was Bertrand Goldberg’s beautiful Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago, a cluster of concrete cylinders on an unlikely slender base; Paul Rudolph’s Shoreline Apartments in Buffalo, and John Johansen...
...His selections for the Richmond Challenge are: Blue Whale R class (GBP) income units, Fundsmith T class income units, Polar Capital Technology Fund, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust and Smithson Investment...
...John Tyler, 63, a Republican, received healthcare through his wife’s employer....
...It was neatly, if a little archly, described by the architect Peter Smithson as looking “hand-knitted”. But it set the scene for Cullinan’s solo career....
...At Painting & Sculpture of a Decade 54-64, a 1964 show intended to allow London’s scene to catch up with happenings in contemporary art, Alison and Peter Smithson built an entirely new series of spaces in...
...Social media addicts this time seem to have embraced John Gerrard’s digital simulation “Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas)” (2017), a climate-change piece depicting a flagpole spewing black smoke, and Sterling...
..., Colin St John Wilson (who would later design the British Library), Ernő Goldfinger, James Stirling and Crosby himself....
...Set into the solid, rusticated base of a classical building designed by John Nash in 1827, it is a gash of the avant-garde amid the firmly traditional....
...John Boughton’s book Municipal Dreams could, however, have begun with a different story....
...John Curtice, a polling expert at the University of Strathclyde, warns that almost all of those changes favour the Remain campaign....
...(from the book ‘Space, Hope and Brutalism’ by Elain Harwood); James Oddy; View Pictures/UIG/Getty Images; Peter Bloomfield/Courtesy of Barbican Centre, 2016; Courtesy Fran Parente; Nicolas Grospierre; John...
...John Sisay, chief executive of mining company Sierra Rutile — one of the biggest companies in Sierra Leone — agrees that short global attention spans are an issue, but emphasises that the region needs to...
...Its chief executive John Fallon has suggested large acquisitions are unlikely in the short term....
...It was built in 1949 as part of a programme begun by John Entenza, editor of Arts & Architecture magazine, who commissioned a series of houses by young architects to demonstrate how modern architecture could...
...Mike Smithson, a political betting expert, worries that YouGov exaggerated Cleggmania in the 2010 general election; he says he is waiting until next week’s results from ICM and TNS, pollsters who do not...
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...Robert Smithson, of Taube Hodson Stonex in London, points out that the profit margins for many Spanish companies remain tiny fractions of their peak margins from before the crisis – suggesting that any return...
...John Pasche’s Rolling Stones logo is surprisingly missing. And finally there are Pauline Boty’s beautiful, under-regarded paintings....
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