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...It is governed from what in today’s reality is still the Bloomberg HQ near St Paul’s, with the English parliament transferred to Warrington in Cheshire....
...Trunk show III will open at Thorns Gallery, North Yorkshire, on November 16 Nicole Farhi, founder, Nicole Farhi Nicole Farhi, who grew up near the Fondation Maeght in St-Paul-de-Vence, recalls the first...
...The view of London from her expansive office high in the old BBC wing probably helps: the BT Tower, St Paul’s and the City, Canary Wharf and the Spurs football stadium, looking like a spaceship has landed...
...“Low ceilings, wooden bar, open fire.”...
...Construction began in 1988, with the first buildings completed in 1991....
...As the plague subsided, London’s tightly packed network of wooden buildings led to the Great Fire of 1666, destroying much of the medieval city, including Old St Paul’s....
...Paul Dales: 2024 will be another year of stagnation for the UK economy with GDP growth of around 0.0 per cent....
...An 1859 poster advertising the project compared its height favourably to St Paul’s in London, St Peter’s in Rome and the Great Pyramid in Egypt....
...The wedding at St Paul’s with the princess clad in a vast, frothy meringue of a dress, and the wedding rituals, at once commonplace and magnificently arcane, must all have seemed a throwback to the marriage...
...MPs on how to fire up the economy....
...WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave an impromptu speech on the steps of St Paul’s in support of the occupation....
...Paul Myners, the former UK City minister, said the Financial Conduct Authority should evaluate the impact of Mr Woodford transferring former investment funds to new managers on behalf of St James’s Place...
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...Standing 290ft wide at the base and 375ft tall, which is slightly higher than St Paul’s Cathedral, each standard hyperboloid cooling tower is the perfect exemplar of “form follows function”....
...The story of St Paul’s, Wren’s assimilation of medieval English church building within his Baroque conception, the balance of structure and ornament, the gigantic dome rivalling Rome’s St Peter’s, emerges...
...The location in the old city, just below St Peter’s cave church, where the apostle and St Paul are believed to have worshipped, and close to the world-class archaeology museum, appeared perfectly positioned...
...says a soldier, fearing a different enemy, in Henry V. “I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.”...
...Sir Martin “is saying — OK, the law has been broken”, said Paul Ridge, a partner at Bindmans LLP who represents many residents and survivors of the fire that killed 72 people....
...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...
...The dome of St Paul’s appears almost as a totem, a little bubble of continuity; then the Thames leaks into view, its great muddy streak spilling through a city of ruins and resilience....
...Like the FT’s investigation, its data showed that the Central line — one of the busiest and deepest routes, through the likes of Marble Arch, Oxford Street and St Paul’s stations — was the most polluted,...
...In St Lucia, British practice Michaelis Boyd is working on the design of five new beach houses at the Sugar Beach resort; two are already complete....
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...“These forest fires are a sad business,” says Hugo Skillington, an estate agent who has been selling property in St Tropez for 44 years....
...There is one exception: the latest, living king is set in an almond-shaped mandorla usually reserved for Christ, holding a torch to St Paul. Flattery will get you everywhere....
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