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...Architect Ludwig Godefroy’s extraordinary neo-Brutalist Casa Alférez in Mexico features a restrained, green-upholstered conversation pit at the bottom of a double-height concrete atrium; KRADS’ Icelandic...
...More recently, Tabitha Steinberg, who formerly ran Larder in her apartment, joined Ace Ehrlich to start the commercial gallery Ehrlich Steinberg; The Fulcrum will relocate to the same building as Leroy’s...
...With a limited supply of luxury-level apartments, “we thought hard about leaving Yorkville”, Gerowitz says. Instead he and his wife bought a three-bedroom apartment in The Harper with a terrace....
...The designer duo’s Le Cocodoll bed – essentially an egg-like bird body with large bronze feet – once graced the apartment of French decorator Jacques Grange....
...A separate carriage house features a guest studio apartment and a two-car garage....
...The first time that Manchester attracted the undivided attention of the rest of the world was at the height of the Industrial Revolution....
...The two pearly towers rising nearest to the bridge are beginning to look very classy, their height making them appear more slender....
...But apartment buildings below 11m in height, deemed as lower risk by the government, are not covered by legislation aimed at protecting residents from having to pay for replacing cladding, which includes...
...What A five-bedroom log main house and a three-bedroom guest apartment, with a total of about 8,220 sq ft of interior living space and 491 acres of land....
...Here it’s served escanciada: poured by the waiter in a thin stream from an arm’s height, oxygenating the drink for a kick of freshness that asturianos love....
...So I went to the Bowery and got one of those industrial counter-height fridges that I assume most restaurants use to store butter or something....
...For her own kitchen in a Bristol apartment, Cox opted for a country-house feel, “a mix and match of things; with the slight sense of disorder that I find pleasing.”...
...On its northern, less affluent extremes, there are imposing red-brick apartment buildings along broad avenues rattled by the charge of elevated subway trains heading towards Washington Heights and the Bronx...
...In late February of this year, a sprawling duplex set between Brooklyn’s waterfront Dumbo district and historic Brooklyn Heights entered the rental market with an eye-widening $36,000 per month price tag...
...At the height of Stalin’s purges in 1937, celebrated poet Paolo Iashvili, dismayed at the denunciations and show trials of his colleagues, left a meeting of the Writers’ Union of Soviet Georgia taking place...
...The latter are on a three-year loan from the artist, whose London apartment Tessier also designed....
...The house’s highlight is the two great double-height galleries joined by a spiral stair that drops from the top storey like a curl of orange peel....
...It takes me a few minutes to work out that the mysterious smudge rising from the haze to the south-east is Lewisham, where high-rise apartment blocks are mushrooming....
...“When interest rates were low, people bought many apartments.”...
...Plants still grow better there and winters kill less: the “gardens are full of rosemary, laurel and sweet herbs which the cold of England destroyeth”, remarked an acute English visitor some 400 years ago...
...Witherford created double-height floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the busy Southwark Park Road to maximise this....
...“Tenting reduces ceiling height — giving a tall and narrow room better proportions....
...the Wimbledon tennis fortnight, a quintessentially English sports event with its genteel dress code (smart for the audience, white for the players) and royalty in attendance, that truly consecrates the height...
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