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...Countries in Africa in particular became an “experimental ground” for European architects, says Ghanaian architect and historian Kojo Derban....
...That simple idea has been rigorously applied to every Black Crows product ever since — from chevron-patterned water bottles to down jackets with V-shaped baffles — giving the company an instantly recognisable...
...In 1967 the US’s X-15 hit a speed of 4,520mph — 6.7 times the speed of sound — when Major William Knight piloted the rocket-powered experimental aircraft....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...One experimental trip to New York cracked it for me, and changed the way I choose to travel for work....
...“It’s a super exciting time to be part of the first in vivo experimental medicines going into the clinic,” he said....
...So far the surface has been applied to tabletops, tiles, lighting and vases....
...His retune has resulted in a cocktail of concrete and pale oak, a blend of experimental 1960s structural optimism with the tasteful mainstream modernity of half a century later....
...This was initially pure research but was applied to the design of what became Concorde....
...Made in England in about 1720 and highly collectable, its characteristic features include an applied “string” rim and the original owner’s crowned seal. £3,000....
...It’s now known as the Klangraum – literally “sound space” – a place of avant-garde audio installations and concerts of experimental music, jazz, “abstract hip-hop” and “post-rock”....
...the tiles for Libeskind’s aborted V&A Spiral; the designs for the Grand Museum of Egypt, a monumentally ambitious project by the pyramids with Irish architects Heneghan Peng; and artworks by Anish Kapoor...
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