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...Birmingham once pioneered a form of “municipal socialism” under Joseph Chamberlain in the 1870s and the city owned its own gas and water suppliers. Now, the council is deeply indebted....
...Inspired by Baldwin’s idea, the curators — Jayden Ali, Joseph Henry, Meneesha Kellay and Sumitra Upham — are, Kellay tells me, “aspiring to bask in the moonlight”....
...Over a six-year renovation, the mansion at 1 Sloane Place was completely overhauled (though the Edwin Thomas Hall-designed building’s façade remains unchanged); a sixth floor, complete with cupola, was added...
...Writer Joseph Roth told Stefan Zweig, “Do not delude yourself. Hell reigns”. By late February, Nazi decrees had laid the basis for “absolute control”....
...Joseph Henry, the final member of the winning team, is the capital development manager of the culture and creative industries unit of the Greater London Authority....
...The “antelope” will stare down Sir Edwin Landseer’s bronze lions and gaze on the figures of Sir Henry Havelock and Sir Charles Napier, Victorian commanders of the empire’s wars and occupants of other plinths...
...I also discussed the rise and fall of financial dynasties with Joseph Sassoon. There were not only political and economic stars but many cultural ones in attendance, too....
...To protect the grain from rain, a wooden roof was added in 1783, which was later replaced after a fire by François-Joseph Bélanger’s iron version, a wonder of its age....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...That version endured under the guidance of Colley Cibber, David Garrick and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Joseph Grimaldi was the in-house clown) until 1791 when Sheridan knocked it down and built an enormously...
...“Obviously the chances of escalation have increased,” said Edwin Walczak, a portfolio manager at Vontobel....
...Rupture four is where Fischli came in, with Joseph Beuys telling his students to stop painting and Jörg Immendorff’s scrawl on canvas “Hört auf zu malen”, the “Stop Painting” of the title....
...Its Crystal Palace, an architectural and engineering marvel designed by Joseph Paxton, ushered in a new world, a bubble of production, consumption and colonialism....
...The Kessler Foundation, the charitable owner of the Jewish Chronicle, submitted a bid to liquidators Begbies Traynor days later, which would have given the organisation the chance to relaunch both publications...
...Soane was the architect who designed the Bank of England and had it depicted as a ruin by the painter Joseph Michael Gandy....
...The Best stores reverberated with Joseph Gandy’s drawings of John Soane’s Bank of England as a ruin, suggesting an institution as durable as the Roman empire....
...edwin.heathcote@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Parkies are ‘the world’s only harmless police’ / From Geoff Smith, Huddersfield, W Yorks, UK...
...Robert Swerling, corporate and institutional banking chief operating officer of Investec; Jonathan Kandel, a partner at Kirkland and Ellis; Tom Boltman, head of strategic initiatives at Kovrr; and Mark Joseph...
...Joseph Roth described them as “the world’s only harmless police” in a lovely article about the Schiller Park in Berlin, in 1923....
...The Kessler Foundation, the charitable trust that has owned the Chronicle since 1984, has struggled financing the publication in recent years....
...Who Sotheby’s By Rachel Hagan Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first....
...His logical replacement for many Catholics would have been the auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, Joseph Ha Chi-shing....
...The FT’s architecture critic Edwin Heathcote has some brilliant advice about what you will really need over the coming unsettling weeks and months....
...Reminiscences of a Stock Operator , by Edwin Lefevre (I am not a cyclist). Liar’s Poker , by Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short (NJT)....
...Amber Capital founder Joseph Oughourlian, who has been an investor in Scor for the past 15 years, said that Mr Kessler was right to stand his ground, and that any new approach should only be considered if...
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