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...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...He continues by explaining that the reason he built the tower structure was “pure megalomania . . . Aladdin’s pantomime had something to do with it because [Aladdin’s] palace had towers”....
...Spread out over three floors with a sculpture gallery and two towers, the average visitor would need several days to take it all in....
...V, and to those who added a storey and the stair tower in the early 17th century....
...April 24 to 30; further information and tickets here Sport London Marathon The mammoth run weaves around the capital, taking in such landmarks as Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge....
...Even the empty floors in London’s office towers may end up damaging the rest of Britain more than the capital....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...Anduril’s first big win, when it was just a few months old, was a contract with the Trump administration to supply AI-powered surveillance towers along the Mexican border....
...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...V. About two dozen people attended the final hearing in Ganieva’s civil action against Black, in a harshly lit room inside an Italianate office building in Tribeca. It was May 2023....
...The tradition has been carried on atop the Freitag tower, the stack of containers in Zürich-West (2006).)...
...A tower of shelves made from wooden struts, the black and red strips of fabric tied around its joins suggest it is a shrine. Yousefzada says it’s about “migration, female agency and consumption”....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...Through the sale of bracelets and pendants, the brand has raised more than $20mn to provide water, immunisations and educational tools to those in need. louisvuittonforunicef.com V is for Visual AidsAcne...
...Others stop at Dürnstein, the prettiest of the riverside villages, its monastery bell tower a delicate porcelain blue....
...closed to visitors — a Tuesday — the vast courtyard of the Palais du Louvre in central Paris is teeming with tourists taking selfies in front of IM Pei’s glass pyramids and hawkers selling miniature Eiffel Towers...
...The UK has taken a few days off to celebrate their hereditary monarch reaching an arbitrary monarchical milestone, so George and Bryce are away, leaving me alone at FTAV Towers....
...At the Bridge Theatre in Tower Bridge the half-time wines are supplied by St John Restaurant....
...For taller buildings “tuned mass dampers”, essentially weights of steel or tanks of water high up in the towers, help reduce extremes of movement....
...Bloomberg monitors do not tower over the analysts, nor are there TVs streaming financial news....
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...The King continues to dispute claims that he ordered the killing of the rightful monarch Edward V and his younger brother Richard, then imprisoned in the Tower of London....
...Here, however, you can lounge on 11th-floor springy grass with a cocktail in hand and a curious sense that the Eiffel Tower is glittering just for you....
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