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...Meng also appeared at the ceremony in Dongguan, in front of a campus built to echo the dreaming spires of the UK’s Oxford university....
...And there isn’t another part of Oxford I’d want to live in — Cowley has a very vibrant, multicultural feel,” he says....
...The church spire is painted white....
...We’d resolved, for reasons that briefly eluded us, not to do this. We’d be self-sufficient. We’d freestyle it — towing a repurposed foldable doggy trailer....
...And then I thought, it’s like a spire. It was Paddy’s idea to put steps inside it so you could go up it.” When asked if the space will be consecrated, they look at one another for thoughts....
...At last we side-slipped and snow-ploughed down to the flat valley floor and the village of Champagny-le-Haut, its chalets clustered about a tall church spire....
...Two decades on, the latest is for the first ascent of a Nepalese peak called Jugal Spire (also known as Dorje Lhakpa II) which Ramsden spotted on Google Earth during the Covid lockdown and climbed with Tim...
...In the style of a jardin raisonné, the tall hedges in the château’s garden are impeccably clipped, while the yew trees at their edges are shaped into mounds and spires like theatrical scenery....
...I’d first seen Mambwete 30 minutes earlier, shuffling like an arthritic ghost, hunched over a cane....
...The former was Dumas’s writing studio, a pavilion of pinkish stone with a Gothic spire in a small moat....
...Nobody admitted to noticing the sad skeletons of box spires destroyed by box tree caterpillar Cydalima perspectalis. The spires took 23 years to perfect and were transplanted from my last garden....
...Or that pickling could transform a lärchen, the tiny, furry, you’d-have-thought-inedible pinecone of a larch tree (he is also a keen forager) into something arrestingly nutty and aromatic....
...Philippe Villeneuve has overseen the identical reconstruction of the building and spire — to the nth degree....
...“The mayor was forced to issue a statement assuring citizens they’d be safe,” Rietzschel said. “The whole town went completely gaga.”...
...P Soleil d’Or gives bright yellow berries on red stems, and P rogersiana Flava has glossy yellow fruits....
...“This Boy is in Memmory Put up for the late FIRE of LONDON Occasion’d by the Sin of Gluttony 1666” runs the inscription....
...Lucy FisherA spire in Tower Hamlets. Miranda GreenA spire in Tower Hamlets, places where those votes are really significant as to whether Labour would keep individual seats....
...Housed in a 19th-century listed mansion that stretches skyward into spires, the Grisebach auction house gives off the disquieting charm of a German fairytale castle....
...The city of dreaming spires is the alma mater of many who stalk the halls of power or jet off to Davos, after all....
...We emerged from a wadi to see a huge basaltic spire shooting vertically from a gravel plain, tapering into a rounded apex....
...Why In its elevated position outside the city, Boars Hill has rural walks and views of Oxford’s famous “dreaming spires”....
...For my explorations I’d come to Krems, the hub town at the Wachau’s eastern end. This is where I discovered the Heuriger Hamböck, just upriver....
...As we skied, he pointed out the other high pastures and farms: these are rolling slopes of meadows and forests rather than the jagged, glaciated spires you find in other parts of the Alps....
...These all sit under a 162m white and yellow spire that acts as a beacon for the performing arts in the centre of Melbourne....
...And that was we’d met a few times before. Ben Okri And then we had a long conversation after I sent the piece into you, sent to the piece and you’d read it....
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