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...But Birch’s bust has been removed, and the two streets that pass the tower are now named in honour of his executed assassins....
...Street are just a stroll away....
...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Paris I live on the Left Bank of the city in the seventh arrondissement (Invalides, between Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the Eiffel Tower)....
...There’s one in the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, all of about four blocks from the tower on West 57th Street....
...They found their way from nearby King’s Cross station to its portholed tower, which stood like a beacon in the then destitute, dangerous streets....
...Departing L’Hôtel, our boutique base camp in the crenellated shadow of the city’s Château des ducs de Bretagne, we located the distinctive orange-and-blue markings of La Vélodyssée easily enough and quickly...
...Goldman Sachs has fired several employees at its nascent corporate cash management business over what the Wall Street bank characterised as “serious violations” of its communications policies....
...Black proposed “alternative assets”, which could be anything really: office towers, the debts of distressed borrowers, even entire companies....
...Elsewhere in the book, he decried the wholesale clearance of back-to-back terraces and the impositions of tower blocks in Clive Street, Stepney, by the London County Council....
...Head to Lam Tsuen Wishing Square and write your wish on a red or gold piece of paper (colours that represent good luck), tying it to an orange and tossing it into a tree....
...But, faced with an orange traffic cone deliberately placed on the hood, the cars experience the robotaxi equivalent of a PC screen turning blue: they become paralysed and clog up traffic....
...The next it’s Simon Orange — who as the brother of boy band Take That singer Jason Orange of “Back For Good” fame, is perhaps the less famous member of his family....
...Canoe TD Bank Tower, 66 Wellington Street West, Toronto, ON M5K 1H6 Good for: Classy cocktails with a view Not so good for: Food is not veggie-friendly (and definitely not vegan): most dishes are fish...
...Quirky, unusual and occasionally genuinely surprising, the buildings (notably a gold-plated tower) play with ideas of industrial rawness, luxury and taste....
...Security guards are posted at each of its street entrances (my taxi driver guesses the company has “something to do with the government”)....
...Occupying the former site of the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch (at 100 Shoreditch High Street), it offers guests the perfect compromise: easy access to the gleaming towers around Liverpool Street (it’s a 10-minute...
...From a central space, Jack Elwes’s deepfake cabaret drag installation “The Zizi Show” (2020-23) blares out Beyoncé and George Michael and sends neon-pink and orange flickers down two long, classically hung...
...The Wall Street pressure comes foremost from Benioff’s decision to buy messaging tool Slack Technologies for $27bn in 2020, which put Salesforce in direct competition with Microsoft....
...Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is helping to fund KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners’ agreement to buy a stake in Vodafone’s €15bn towers business....
...York Way viaduct slices through derelict wasteland, the gloom mitigated by touches of Venetian red and orange, in “Railway Landscape near King’s Cross, Dark Day”....
...To the left, along the Costa del Este, modern tower blocks thrust up into the sky, glinting with the soft lighting of myriad penthouse suites....
...More of a small citadel than a hotel, the flagship Shangri-La comprises the Tower, Garden and Valley Wings....
...The Fogartys lived on Main Street, one of the village’s two roads. Three times a week, they walked down the other, Chapel Street, to go to Mass....
...The following year, Moussaieff, who is based in London, invited Hu to her Bond Street boutique for a meeting....
...Through the maze of streets in the old town, past the rickety clock tower designed by a puppeteer, is the city’s oldest surviving church, the sixth-century Anchiskhati Basilica of St Mary....
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