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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...It was the realisation that Kuwait City would be just as difficult to find as Saudi Arabia that forced us to proceed with our unplanned escape....
...the apparent gulf between building and art....
...Raine was an adviser when Silver Lake invested $500mn into City Football Group, owner of Premier League champions Manchester City, in 2019, and on the sale of Olympique Lyonnais in 2022....
...city of Jerusalem, beneath clouds whipped by a breeze animating the entire scene....
...Collardi — one of the best-known figures in Swiss banking, and perhaps one of the best-connected men in finance — booked two restaurants for lunch, both a few miles outside the city of his birth, Geneva,...
...Playhouse, London More national soul-searching is on the agenda for Holly Race Roughan’s intense, stripped-down version of Henry V....
...We paused to sniff the newly bloomed poppies and daisies and savour the dry Attic breeze. We were in the heart of a lively modern city....
...By 1988, at still only 27, he was directing Dench in his film of Henry V. It won him Oscar nominations as Best Actor and Best Director....
...A soft breeze, pushing in from the sea to fan their hilltop garden, brings with it Mediterranean scents of rosemary and pine....
...Now, along with the Gulf princedoms, the south-east Asian island is one of a handful of wealthy nations that will be on the very front line of climate change....
...Powell was educated at a local high school in the Bronx and at the City College of New York, which he chose over New York University because tuition cost only $10 a year....
...In the US, new entrants Breeze Airways and Avelo Airlines plan to connect smaller cities, while South Africa’s Lift has already begun flying....
...When the curator gave her introduction, she swayed on the spot like a blade of grass in the breeze, feet drifting a few inches above the ground....
...PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...In the library, three topless men sit at a table, shooting the breeze....
...(FT) Video of the day Saudi Arabia’s mega-project A 170km car-free, carbon-free city the size of Belgium, built in a straight line through a remote part of Saudi Arabia is Mohammed bin Salman’s grand plan...
...day (some 14 per cent of the city’s population)....
...Warm breezes carry the hint of roasting coffee beans, the scent of burning embers and frankincense, the promise of the open sea. “And the promise of a rosy future perhaps?”...
...All Of Us: A Young People’s History of the World, by Yvan Pommaux and Christophe Ylla-Somers, New York Review of Books, RRP£25/$29.95 An illustrated history of human civilisation, All Of Us breezes through...
...Transfer Market Saudi Arabia’s Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud has been nominated for membership to the International Olympic Committee in another signal of the Gulf Kingdom’s ambitions in sport....
...(FT) What do you miss most about your city? Tell us about the daily rituals you can’t wait to get back to....
...The largest so far is a Damascus development known as Marota City. Plans depict gleaming towers, akin to cities in the Gulf, but the project has seen little progress....
...Added to this, the “East Bank” development now under construction will bring outposts of the V&A, Sadler's Wells, the London College of Fashion and University College within a stone’s throw of the sky gardens...
...in a breeze like the feathers of a bird....
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