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...A spiral staircase leads to a 150 sq m private roof terrace and the light-filled rooms are supported by a series of steel columns....
...The arrangement allows ex-couples to delay selling the home and deciding who will keep the mortgage, while keeping a familiar roof over any children’s heads....
...Instead of mere rooms, there’ll be “personal havens” with a minimum area of 40 sq m, making them some of the largest in the city....
...The last thing I bought and loved was an Evian water fountain. I have it in my kitchen, and I’m saving up all the plastic bottles it uses. I have a huge pile....
...a seedling of the rampant white Kiftsgate, was covered in cream-apricot clusters above my primary viewing point, a garden seat; the little-known Mrs Honey Dyson had rambled over half of the vicarage’s roof...
...And, this being Britain, there’s also a solid roof and electric heaters....
...Maybe it’s because I’m in an ancient space, away from the office, or technology, or stress, or maybe it’s because I want to believe. But I can feel something magical in these waters....
...The 1.17 acres of grounds feature landscaped gardens, a saltwater infinity pool, fountain, koi ponds and a raised gazebo overlooking the coast....
...“Treehouses aren’t just for kids, and I think I’m going to be spending a night out there myself,” she admits....
...Citrus trees heavy with fruit and blooming bougainvillea cascade along the walls, while a soundtrack of birdsong and water fountains plays in the background....
...Why The villa is built around a traditional Andalucían courtyard with colonnades, palm trees and a fountain....
...“No, they’re vessels that were used to collect water from the roofs, originally they would nest one inside the other. Actually, we found them here.”...
...Otto, a worker at the BMW plant, lives with his wife, Martha, and teenage son, Ludwig, in a modest apartment....
...A toilet-shaped fountain by Laure Prouvost, originally shown at the 2019 Venice Biennale, will be installed....
...I should be worried about my roof coming down. Shooting Martha by David Thewlis is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson at £14.99...
...“And I feel like I’m just getting started.” Rose Uniacke At Home by Rose Uniacke with texts by Alice Rawsthorn (Rizzoli Books, £150) is published on 5 October....
...The roof has been affixed with hurricane straps to keep it on....
...The new building included a W Hotel above a four-storey M&M’s store....
...I’m taken to my room along a labyrinth of tiled paths and trickling fountains....
...You’re not quite in the centro storico, but it’s only about a 10-minute stroll down to the Trevi Fountain....
...Beneath that huge glass roof, the biggest ever built, were laid out the spoils of empire and the manufactures of the world, but mostly of Britain....
...Fountains gush from snakes’ heads into ponds....
...Through a fug of jet lag, it takes me a moment to realise that what I’m hearing is not in fact an approaching storm, nor the roar of aircraft engines, but the boom and thump of big waves rolling on to a...
...The real honeymoon suite is set on its own around a plunge pool fed by a whispering fountain....
...Even now, 30 years later, the pyramid and its triangular fountains are a daring solution to one of the world’s most sensitive sites....
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