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...The Winding Stair by Jesse Norman Biteback £20, 480 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...On the mezzanine of the Norman Foster-designed, glass-fronted Sainsbury Centre, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, is a long line of child-sized ceramic vessels....
...There are two striking contemporary museums, one dedicated to “Romanité” and another, designed by Norman Foster, to contemporary art. So, why the old gym?...
...(C&K, by the way, rescued themselves in my esteem when they later opened Zédel, on a truly democratic brasserie model.)...
...Once a concrete-laden Soviet-era factory, the complex now houses a hostel, a string of bars and cafés and, up some metal stairs, one of the city’s most popular co-working spaces, Impact Hub....
...Designed by Richard Norman Shaw, one of the great domestic architects of the era, they represented an attempt to formulate a language for apartment living particular to London....
...He says that provided buildings are well laid-out, with core elements like stairs and lift-shafts in the right places, “they can be refurbished”....
...Patrick Bringley So, yes, we are heading into, in my day, this was Section K-1....
...We’d finally managed to manoeuvre the surprisingly heavy piece up a flight of stairs, down my building’s long corridor and into my front room. She wasn’t wrong. It’s well made and solidly constructed....
...Not long ago, the gothic roof profile and the creaky stairs were as critical to a scary movie as the monsters, demons and killers. Perhaps even more so....
...But the moment we emerge from the steep flight of stairs and pick our way through the Formica tables of the dining room, I see that my choice, while not short of charm, is a mismatch....
...The gorgeously individualised sketches “Heads of Six of Hogarth’s Servants”, an affectionate ages of man and woman progression from nervous below-stairs arrivals to protective, competent or warily knowing...
...Jencks threw birthday parties each year for Zaha Hadid; Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves were all friends and visitors....
...The Reverend K Karpen, co-chair of the community board’s preservation subcommittee, attempted to ease tensions over the glass box....
...But it is a phalanx of be(k)nighted pharma execs that leaves him most disenchanted....
...The series began with The Wake (2014), about the displacement of a Saxon landowner, Buccmaster of Holland, in 11th-century Lincolnshire during the aftermath of the Norman invasion, and was followed up in...
...Not all the path is on the river, but the streets behind are fascinating and there are frequent steps down to the water, with names such as Pelican Stairs....
...And one of the leaders of the attempt by hundreds of protesters on August 29 to storm the Reichstag was a dreadlocked woman identified as “Tamara K” in German media....
...Norman S Poser New York, NY, USEmeritus Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School...
...For even here, an estate rooted in wealth from Norman Conquest land gifts, historians have uncovered a connection: shares in a Barbados sugar plantation owned by George Wyndham (1751-1837), the 3rd Earl...
...In the middle of the town, a flight of stairs leads down into the Portuguese Cistern, one of the most atmospheric spaces in Morocco....
...Neal Norman of at Hawai’i Life, a property company based on Kauai, says that privacy-craving tech millionaires have become an important constituent of his clients....
...Among the eclectic guests were William Hague (spotted in conversation with Lloyds chairman, and fellow Tory peer, Norman Blackwell)....
...By early December my wife reported to the hospital that I was walking normally without a stick, including up and down stairs, and my tremor had vanished....
...“I hope to f**k it’s the last time and all.” Such defections may be outweighed by more considered tactical voting....
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