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...At Bosco Verticale, the plant-covered pair of apartment towers in Milan, deciduous and evergreen species were cultivated for two years before being transplanted to ensure they would be able to survive on...
...Idols and paintings of saints are dotted around the store, serving as a reminder of their original benefactor. Tienforti emphasises that Don Bosco’s vision is not, and has never been, commercial....
...“It’s very dangerous because we don’t have underground cables. Drug traffickers cut the copper wires to sell. Sometimes the cables fall.”...
...Milan’s Porto Nuova district has become home to 36 LEED-certified buildings (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a global benchmark for sustainability) since the completion of Bosco Verticale,...
...“Mexicans don’t have that mindset — we buy to build.” I immediately think of places like Los Cabos and Tulum, both suffering the effects of over-tourism....
...But don’t expect to find clear signage anywhere. Or air-conditioning. The saying goes that Puerto has just two seasons: wet and dry....
...Mexican artist Bosco Sodi spent several years persuading the great Tadao Ando to design Casa Wabi, his Oaxaca art foundation sitting on a 90-acre plot of coastline between the mountains and the Pacific....
...Here, over the past 15 years, a disused railway yard has been redefined by a creation of a botanical park, Biblioteca degli Alberi, and twin “forest” towers, Bosco Verticale....
...Those have now been removed for fear of violating the security law. Staring at the remaining scraps of paper on the wall, Bosco said his parents wanted him to study in Taiwan. “I don’t want to leave....
...“They were the most expensive tamales of my life,” quipped Bosco de la Vega, president of Mexico’s National Agricultural Council, after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had 75 of the country’s top business...
...’s RTLM associates, Ferdinand Nahimana and Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, at the court in 2003....
...The most notable example is the Bosco Verticale development in Milan, which has incorporated a hectare of greenery in the building’s footprint....
...Any visit should include the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte – incredible in itself because no one’s in it, unlike the rest of Italy where everything is so packed....
...Vervoordt inaugurates the exhibition space on the gallery’s lower floor with Infinitive Mutability, a show of Peter Buggenhout, Kimsooja and Bosco Sodi....
...It dresses my finger even when I don’t want to wear my engagement ring. 44 Old Bond Street, London W1 (020-7495 0885; boghossianjewels.com) The last meal that truly impressed me was at Burgundy, a gem of...
...Again it is the use of ordinary language that allows Okeowo, a practitioner of the “show, don’t tell” school of writing, to reveal character and situation with understated detail....
...Goodwin, the law firm, has added Bosco Yiu to its private equity practice as a partner based in Hong Kong. Yiu was formerly a partner at Cleary Gottlieb....
...APERITIF 2002 vintage champagne Raventós i Blanc from Penedès, northern Spain Ca’ del Bosco, Annamaria Clementi from Franciacorta, northern Italy Top bottlings from the English likes of Hambledon, Nyetimber...
...The Salesians of Don Bosco is a religious institute, founded in the 19th century by the Italian John Bosco, who placed particular emphasis on improving the lives of young people....
...Sir Terry also raises the possibility of the greening of skyscrapers: “[Stefano Boeri’s] Bosco Verticale in Milan is remarkable because it isn’t just a series of shelves for plants but a complex ecosystem...
...Having observed an extensive collection of rubber ducks in the bathroom, I don’t argue....
...Only La Mancha, Don Quixote’s plains that sprawl south of Madrid, covers a bigger area. And he is concerned at what he sees as a focus on producing inexpensive rioja....
...Now, with the row settled, his 37-year-old grandson Bosco Law is trying to live out the exhortation to cautious living in his role as chief executive of Lawsgroup, the family’s mini-conglomerate, which spans...
...professor, and their two Boston terriers, Bosco and Orso....
...Susy Gariboldi, an Anglo-American married to an Italian, lives on the ninth floor of the Bosco Verticale....
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