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...The former clutter of shop, sandwich bar and ramps has been stripped out to create a generous and elegant internal piazza....
...It ended up instead on Piazza della Signoria, a symbol of civic freedom. The shift from sacred to secular location was emblematic....
...Jonathan Anderson chopped out V-shaped peepholes on fleshy chests and based many of his clothes on “the mundane object” — weird moulded shoes designed to recall the claw feet of Georgian furniture, wide...
...“It will have performance spaces and rehearsal rooms; it’s next to Westfield Stratford and the V&A East – it’s going to be a cultural quarter almost,” says Bargh....
...of Indonesia-inspired cocktails are available if you fancy upping the ante. potatohead.co RD Joia, Milan The oldest Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant in Europe, this elegant institution near the Piazza...
...socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to be sentenced after being found guilty in a sex abuse trial Wednesday Belgium, the Ommegang festival, including a pageant re-enacting the historical entry of Charles V,...
...The second you enter the Paris hotel, you step on a marble and granite eight-pointed star design — inspired, I learnt, by the one in Rome’s Piazza del Campidoglio. Bulgari takes heritage seriously....
...A star trio of women’s voices — Julia Bullock, Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara — tug at the heartstrings with “Migratory V”. Part two, Work, follows on February 24; Love in April; Faith in May....
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...E&V is selling a three-bedroom villa with pool near Anacapri for €2.15m....
...The “V” variously stood for victory, vendetta and vaffanculo — polite translation: “Get lost!” From a piazza in Bologna, he excoriated the Italian political circus with sword-swallowing satire....
...At the V&A, Amanda Levete folded her courtyard into an origami landscape; JKMM have draped theirs like a series of tents....
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...Levete’s design for the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter is a courtyard, a space rather than an object....
...With its porcelain tiles and striking mix of modernity and historicism, the V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter promises to be the most exciting piazza since St John Wilson’s British Library....
...He was withdrawn from the Tour de Romandie in 2010 for flicking a V-sign, and has a habit of verbally butchering journalists....
...government will be now left to work its way to bring the country out of the current uncertain economic scenario or it will only last until the Stability Law and new electoral law are defined,” said Annalisa Piazza...
...In one, thick, black, lightless oblongs of ink float like steps leading to nowhere in a hopscotch of finer lines to summon the skeleton of an ideal piazza....
...“Different methodologies, different cultural ideas, and a horizontal approach,” she says, leaving the high v low and east v west orthodoxy trailing in her wake....
...Two months earlier Mr Grillo had become Italy’s leading protest politician when he held a rally in Bologna known as V-day, where the V stood for vaffanculo – an Italian obscenity....
...Lecce’s architectural history can be surveyed in one sweep across the main piazza, Saint Oronzo....
...There are lots of restaurants and cafés here and every evening we walk down the Avenue Georges V to the cinemas in the Champs Elysées. We see all kinds of films, new releases and older ones....
...gentlemen to which the 19th-century British prime minister referred was the Knights of St John, a monastic order made up of English aristocrats who were granted ownership of the island in 1530 by Charles V...
...For me, it’s a place for debate – it’s like a piazza. A piazza is a tradition in Italy as a place where people gather and start discussion....
...With its narrow lanes, oblong piazzas and porticoed passages, Mantua seduces the walker....
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