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...Young V&A reopens on July 1, vam.ac.uk/young...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...There were snowmen skiing, snowy roofs, footsteps in the snow and snowy boughs. I think it snowed once at Christmas in my entire childhood....
...For example, Fry and Drew oriented buildings east-west, so when the sun rose it travelled directly over the spine of the roofs (which themselves contained a cooling cushion of air), protecting the rooms...
...WhatsApp to Stephen: One was at the V&A and the other a roof terrace in Kensington. Can’t remember who the hosts were. WhatsApp to Stephen. Did I meet anyone good at Lord’s? I’ll say....
...There is also a terrace from the master bedroom, as well as on the roof....
...I might even have fixed my own roof by then. Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...When reporting the devastating cyclone of 1988, for example, his shot of a woman cooking on the roof of her flooded hut encapsulated the nation’s refusal to surrender....
...CopenHill is a genius idea — take the industrial ugliness of a waste-to-energy plant and turn its long sloping roof into an artificial ski slope....
...“This room is really where the collection began,” says Erdem Moralıoğlu, taking in with a sweep the black-painted walls soaring 20 feet to the glazed roof above, the Renaissance canvases and the tables of...
...The building’s features — such as its V-shaped roof and wood-beamed ceilings — are typical of Lautner’s mid-century style....
...Antony Peattie, partner of Howard Hodgkin, artist (1932-2017) The former studio of Howard Hodgkin, located at the back of a Georgian building in London’s Bloomsbury, is flooded with light from the glass roof...
...She is openly jealous of London’s V&A museum, to which the Bowie archive was donated in February. “I knew very young, as a teenager, that I was going to work in art, but I was quite a movie buff . . ....
...“JGB yields would go through the roof,” he says. That would, in turn, likely fire up other bond yields too. He believes that on balance, it just won’t happen....
...The roofing membrane — the thing is essentially one big roof — is the material he taught me to use, it’s both homage and memorial....
...My first job was in a prefab building with a corrugated iron roof (fashion is so glamorous) which was like a barracks in the depths of winter and a tin can in the summer....
...The revival began with the second conversion of Les Halles in 2016, this time into a park and passable shopping mall with an open, canopied roof....
...Materials that were overlooked are re-appropriated: he uses tar in homage to his father who tarred roofs....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...The thing that distinguishes it is a remarkable roof that pivots upwards with hydraulics and bellows to resemble a camper van....
...out that he was handing round canapés while the roof was caving in....
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
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