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...In an eight-month restoration, they gutted the interior — mercifully the exterior walls were in good nick — to create an exclusive-use property of real panache and charm....
...It wasn’t a ceremonial centre and there are no pyramids....
...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....
...Unfortunately, the Great Pyramid of Cheops, built by rival Tennessee city Memphis, was removed at the end of the exposition....
...This is the exhibition’s poster work: emblematic of Baroque’s pyramid forms and dynamic construction, it lacks the conviction of virtuosity or invention....
...now-adored glass pyramids generating controversy in Paris at the time....
...French tycoons and big companies, as well as government bodies and some foreign donors, have already pledged more than €800m towards the restoration, an outpouring of funds that has triggered another argument...
...However, £1.6m of restoration work is beginning on its historic coal drops....
...Plans for forthcoming houses include an inverted concrete pyramid by Japanese practice Takei Nabeshima Architects....
...Perhaps, for visitors who come next year, when the restoration is complete, the Taj might truly shimmer in the moonlight....
...In mid-March, photographs were published of Qatar’s Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned in an Out of Africa-style shoot among Sudan’s ancient pyramids, north of the capital Khartoum....
...A magnificent restoration at the start of the exhibition makes the point....
...In 2005, it was bought by a consortium who funded a lengthy restoration....
...After forays in restoration and millinery, Saint Lager realised she was, in the end, a sculptor....
...Next month, following a 12-year, €23m restoration by the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Villa Cavrois will open its doors to the public....
...Yet the best architecture is often the quietest, taking what is there and knitting it into a public space — from the High Line park in New York to the restoration of King’s Cross station in London....
...Restoration of the building, which started in the 1970s, has been a gradual process. Ricci was born in Parma but moved out of the city with his family into the Apennines during the second world war....
...At the bottom of the debt pyramid sits the moribund banking sector. Despite the ultra-loose policy of the ECB, credit is still not flowing properly....
...Opened in 2005 after 17 months of restoration work, the hotel’s six rooms (and separate honeymoon villa), pool, restaurant and palm-tree-filled patio cover a city block....
...“The bottom of the bottom of the pyramid, not even close to what we called the ‘bankable’ poor.” This realisation led her to launch the UUPP in late 2009....
...His cool nerve was the key to his sponsorship of the restoration of murals painted by Chagall for the Moscow Jewish Theatre between 1920 and 1921....
...Now largely ruined, the Citadel is undergoing restoration, funded by Unesco and the KRG, that is due for completion by 2025....
...“Imagine a world without the Pyramids, the Forbidden City, Angkor Wat or the Roman Forum,” says Christopher Ohrstrom, chairman of the board of trustees of the World Monuments Fund, the private organisation...
...Only a third of voters backed restoration – a figure Zogu believed had been rigged....
...The Winter Queen spent much of her life in the Netherlands and the Dutch connection is shown by an impressive pair of Delft pyramid flower vases that could net up to £80,000 and a superb Anglo-Dutch six-fold...
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