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...It softens and diffuses sunlight, so that a view of the city from a Silver Lake terrace or a Koreatown rooftop is more Impressionist painting than photograph....
...So is what Dean Shapiro, Oxford’s head of US developments, calls “the authenticity factor”....
...On summer evenings, you can – you should – step outside onto the terrace overlooking the Grand Canal....
...Expense it: Ali Rashid’s wild ride at Apollo A $10,049 flight to Brazil for New Year’s Eve, a trip to New Orleans for the Super Bowl and a bachelor weekend in Montreal....
...The foundation was embroiled in lawsuits last year over homes it built in New Orleans....
...The 89 condos in The Standard — one of the largest residential towers in New Orleans history — are priced from $575,000 for a one-bedroom to $3.475m for a penthouse, with a 2,000 sq ft terrace....
...Prosecutors allege Mr Low, an understated man with extravagant tastes, diverted $3.5bn from 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the state-owned development fund, to spend lavishly on high-end Manhattan...
...After a frenzy of high-end condo development in Miami, the city is awash with waterfront penthouses....
...There is also an enclosed roof terrace, steam room, cinema and gym. Why The house was renovated, designed and furnished by Armani Casa....
...Paradoxically, supply chain worries contributed to KFC’s rapid expansion, according to Warren Liu, who oversaw its China business development from 1997 to 2000....
...The new developments are enticing buyers who, just a few years ago, were less willing to pay premium prices for a property outside the Upper East Side’s long-established borders....
...Also last week, a BP-led consortium fired the starting gun on a $28bn gas development in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, known as Shah Deniz 2....
...One balmy night recently, we were eating shrimps on a hotel terrace beside the ocean....
...Interest has been expressed by LVMH, the Malaysian government’s investment fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Qatar Holding LLC and China’s HNA Group, but no deal has yet been sealed....
...You could also rent the house of the pretender to the Brazilian throne, Prince João de Orleans e Bragança....
...As development in Kyoto has intensified, however, the machiya have been disappearing....
...Prices range from $495 a night in a Superior room to $2,400 in the Presidential Terrace Suite....
...Discreet rather than flamboyant, Nadj dismisses comparisons with 2005, noting that programme development with the festival directors starts more than a year in advance....
...Any decision to proceed with new software would add tens of millions of dollars to the development costs and render worthless much of a current $170-million contract....
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