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...John Graham Lough’s 1862 heroising monument to civil engineer George Stephenson, who opened his pioneering locomotive works here in 1823, is just outside....
...And yet if anything the new project is even more extravagant, expanding the footprint from 580,000 sq ft to more than 800,000 sq ft, with three new floors excavated underneath to create a glittering ballroom...
...It dials down the humour a notch and ramps up the dance floor direction....
...But exhausted by the trial in a 17th-floor room overlooking prisoners playing basketball in orange jumpsuits, they and their lawyers thought they were returning in response to a query from a deliberating...
...But when he read Snow Crash — a dystopian futuristic novel by Neal Stephenson about a computer virus infecting human minds — he became “convinced it was possible”....
...Perhaps for that reason, the eight-floor tower standing on one of the city’s main commercial thoroughfares has never won the affection of Dubliners....
...A bookshelf behind it is stacked with a mix of sci-fi thrillers and novels, that range from The Martian by Andy Weir and Reamde by Neal Stephenson to Philip Roth’s American Pastoral....
...More fish than boy, he glided through the water a few feet above the sandy floor where a stingray flapped its wings to throw up a cloud of white powder....
...features such as climate control, satellite navigation and a bespoke Meridian audio system, switchgear has been kept to the basics and the cabin is largely made from carbon fibre, including the dashboard, floor...
...A yellowed cutting bears the tell-tale signs of having been taped to Margaret Cole’s desk, high on the 27th floor of the Financial Services Authority’s headquarters in Canary Wharf....
...The green pipe carries the CO2 from Sleipner back underwater and deposits it into a reservoir more than one kilometre beneath the ocean floor....
...Lying on the dirt floor of a crude shack behind one such sign is Doll Luidjy Stephenson, who after breaking his pelvis in January 12’s massive earthquake, was hauled home across the city on his friend’s...
...That evocative archive has been edited with flair by Sam Stephenson, director of the Jazz Loft Project at Duke University, North Carolina, into a book whose pages convey, beautifully, the strange cultural...
...“If you have a massive trading floor with 150 people, you can’t vocalise your problems. You are anonymous and weakness isn’t tolerated....
...Heritage is also very important to the proposed £200m Stephenson Quarter scheme – named after the railway pioneers George and Robert, whose engineering workshop, which gave birth to the railway age, is within...
...has little sense of entering a 21st century bank.There are Napoleonic war muskets in the front hall, the tellers’ counter is a large wooden semi-circle surrounding a cast-iron stove, and the worn stone floor...
...Location and contacts: Situated at 12 Stephenson Way, around the corner from Euston station and a few minutes’ walk from Warren Street tube. T: 0845 006 2500....
...There is sumptuous, clear design on the shop floor....
...So I opened it and it was this [a model of Stephenson’s rocket], and he said; “this is to remind you you came up to Newcastle to be given a rocket!” That’s marvellous....
...It is a huge space, with hundreds of galleries spread over three floors, and is buzzing with smart people....
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