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...Surfing architect Harry Gesner’s expressive LA houses (like the 1963 Wave House once owned by Rod Stewart) centred around circular seating pits that allowed unobscured views over the ocean....
...There were not many of those at all - although it is arguable that London’s Southbank Centre, designed by some of the members, embodies many of their ideas, (and there was also a swimming pool for Rod Stewart...
...These spiralling rods also reveal the constraints of this site....
...In June 2022 Ukraine signed a deal with Westinghouse, a US nuclear technology company, to supply all the rods for its existing Russian-made plants....
...Architecture critic Edwin Heathcote seeks clues from the past. And what kind of add-ons might be available?...
...I read with interest Edwin Heathcote’s review of Sandfuture, Justin Beal’s book about Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who designed the World Trade Center (“Demolished dreams”, Books, Life & Arts, FT Weekend...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...Repeatedly during our conversation she refers to herself as a “lightning rod” for the industry....
...On the morning of Friday October 11 1957, a terse message landed on the desk of Sir Edwin Plowden, head of the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority....
...But Shapiro wants to use the story more widely: to illuminate how, through two centuries of American history, Shakespeare has acted as a lightning rod for issues as diverse as gender, race, immigration and...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic....
...There’s the grand entrance with its stained glass panel of a fist gripping rods of lightning and its cinematic, lightbulb studded coffered, vaulted ceiling leading to a corridor surveilled by a booth which...
...Here’s Rod enjoying his garden fountains near Windsor And here are Mick and Keith bestriding the lawns at Redlands in Sussex Here’s my favourite: a reliably blokey John Entwistle of The Who looking stunned...
...According to his publicist Elliot Mintz, in 1977 Lennon performed the song on acoustic guitar to bemused fellow guests in a Tokyo hotel....
...FT arts editor Jan Dalley and architecture and design writer Edwin Heathcote discuss Hadid’s legacy....
...and line in England (except the river Tweed), you will need a fishing rod licence....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic...
...Foster + Partners’ £125m, 12,000-seat SSE Hydro building was unveiled in 2013 with a Rod Stewart concert, while Foster’s 1997 Clyde Auditorium cuts a dash with its reflective aluminium-clad roof, which has...
...A ball of bamboo rods ending in a sphere of pads, this is actually a de-mining device....
...Each spine is a fibre-optic rod which skewers the structure and encloses at its inside end a seed from the Millenium Seed Bank at Kew’s Royal Botanical Gardens – and there are 60,000 spines....
...“Cost structures of the insurers were still geared up for the good days just before the crisis, so they need to realign to the new reality,” says Edwin van der Ouderaa, a senior executive in Accenture’s...
...Contributors range from Richard Dawkins on Darwin and Steve Jones on biodiversity to Simon Schaffer on the 18th-century debate about lightning rods. The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe?...
...At best, big sculptures are what the Financial Times architecture correspondent Edwin Heathcote calls “one-liners”....
...For another client, whose house had languished on the market for two years, Stainton used dowsing rods to divine an “energy blockage” at the front door caused by underground pipes....
...ARCHITECTURE Compiled by Edwin Heathcote Architecture by Authority By Richard Ross Aperture £22, 144 pages A powerful and often sinister photographic record of the way space is used in maintaining terror...
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