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...The pick is the National Rhododendron Gardens, recently rebranded as the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden, which is set across 40 hectares and offers views over the Yarra Ranges wine country....
...Hugh Macmillan Penguin Memorial Library, Penguin, Tasmania “At the bottom of the world (well, close enough). The library is a portable building a few steps from the beach and Bass Strait....
...The peeved mantra of “taxation without representation” looms large across wall murals, licence plates and streetside garden signs....
...Mount Street Gardens is an unexpected urban oasis hidden by imposing buildings. Tall London plane trees tower over grassy areas, flower beds and wooden benches....
...Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, called for Soriot to resign....
...The Sicilian kings also maintained pleasure gardens, many built by their Arab predecessors....
...Mr Sweeney’s control of privately held Epic as its largest shareholder leaves him well positioned to mount a years-long legal fight....
...Mr James wants to mimic the no-expense-spared revamp of its Covent Garden store at a lower cost. “There is a lot we can do just in terms of sharpening things up,” he said....
...In the US, Apple is bracing itself for a class-action lawsuit from consumers who allege the App Store’s “walled garden” is anti-competitive....
...Google billionaire Larry Page has a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc working on how to build a city from scratch. Some billionaires build, others redecorate....
...Are you going to plant a beautiful garden and sit in the wood shed?”...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 17, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The sgraffito mural (1953) on the wall of that building is Bayer’s too, as is the “Marble Garden” (1955), an arrangement of abandoned white slabs from the quarry that supplied the stone for the Lincoln Memorial...
...He went on to use cardboard in real construction in the Poet’s Library (1991), a freestanding garden structure at a house in Kanagawa, Japan....
...Soil will be gathered from Flanders Fields for a memorial garden at the Guards Museum in London to mark the first world war centenary....
...Do not read it out of memorial piety. Read it to understand what the language animal can do at the height of his powers....
...Sargent’s 1906 view of the Boboli Gardens fuses nicely with James’s description, written 15 years earlier, of another Florentine bower....
...Cowra Japanese Garden in Australia, designed by Ken Nakajima, is the largest Japanese garden in the southern hemisphere and commemorates the rebuilding of ties between the two countries following the second...
...Quinn says the highest demand is in Buckhead, Garden Hills and Dunwoody in the north, where there are good schools....
...He takes his daughter to The Mount in west Massachusetts, the white-painted house, of questionable proportions, which the novelist Edith Wharton helped to design....
...As the best traders say, the only perfect hedge is in a Japanese garden....
...Reviewers are asked for ghastly half-memories they have been trying to suppress and a dead letter box is opened underneath the John Snow memorial pump on Broadwick Street for trade insiders to leave anonymous...
...What: A historic townhouse with six en-suite bedrooms and a terraced garden....
...Her current not-for-profit appointments are as a trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Foundation and a member of the business board of the Royal Horticultural Society. …………………………………………………………….....
...She earlier laid a wreath at a memorial to the 50,000 Irish who died fighting in British uniforms during the first world war....
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