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...Thomas Heatherwick, its co-designer, at the risk of ignoring the beam in his own eye, told the FT this week that modern architecture has left our cites suffering an “epidemic of boringness”....
...“I don’t know where he’ll get qualified workers,” said Michael Thomas, who worked at Daimler’s factory in Stuttgart for decades until he retired....
...Hillia Holland-Thomas, offers a rare word in praise of the insurers....
...For a while, John Ferris tells us in Behind The Enigma, spying was regarded as bad form....
...These things aren’t cheap: the Shoppe costs about £25, while some of the larger mechanical accessories, such as a Ferris wheel, might cost £140....
...The site boasts a theme park, a 1,000-room hotel and the world’s first spoke-free Ferris wheel. Its revenues have been tepid and its share price flat for six years. Yet no one seemed to mind....
...Perhaps in that spirit, Ms Weyand devoted the first part of her speech to lambasting protectionism and managed trade, harking back to three examples in history, and ominously citing Thomas Sowell, the US...
...The designer of the ill-starred Garden Bridge, Thomas Heatherwick, is the author of the much-maligned (and much photographed) Vessel in New York....
...There were two of them on our shortlist (Joshua Ferris with To Rise Again at a Decent Hour and Karen Joy Fowler with We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves) but the inclusion of our friends over the water...
...Thomas Heatherwick has emerged as its master, his doomed garden bridge and Pier 55 in New York both fine examples of lucky urban escapes but New York hasn’t got away with it....
...Paintings by Patrick Angus, an artist who died young in 1992 and is in the process of rediscovery, were selling briskly for up to $25,000 at Thomas Fuchs, while New York gallery The Hole sold its entire...
...Just as the Ferris wheel has started turning again, the Kent seaside town itself has a new energy and buzz, and it was this that attracted restaurateur Conor Sheehan....
...Director, Cloud2 Ltd Stuart Laidlaw Co-Founder and CEO, Cyberlytic Taavet Hinrikus CEO and Co-Founder, TransferWise Tamara Lohan MBE Founder and CTO, Mr & Mrs Smith Taras Chaban CEO, Sybenetix Thomas...
...Richard Ferris has moved from Mercer to take on the role of client relations director. Laura Gray will become international client manager, after joining from Aberdeen Asset Management....
...A giant 60-meter-tall ferris wheel is lit up as it is used by passengers for the first time, in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong....
...Mr Flanagan, 53, is the third Australian to win after Thomas Keneally (1982), and Peter Carey (1988 and 2001)....
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...David Walker, London To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, by Joshua Ferris This book resonated with me for many reasons: first, like the main character, I am also a dentist, which is one of the factors that...
...Colourfully and sweetly extolling his work — The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink — with emphasis justifiably on Hughes’s compassion for teenagers....
...“It’s time to open the treasure chest,” says Paolo Ferri, head of mission operations at the ESA. “We are expecting a revolution of science from this mission.”...
...… To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, by Joshua Ferris, Viking RRP£16.99/Little Brown, RRP$26 Paul O’Rourke, a New York dentist, insomniac and serial monogamist, finds his world turned upside down when someone...
...… Joshua Ferris Author of ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ (Viking) My favourite novel of 2014 is Zachary Lazar’s I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Little, Brown)....
...Asterix and the Picts , by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/$14.95 With the blessing of Albert Uderzo, surviving co-creator of the indomitable Gaul, Ferri and...
...T Tangle Teezer (I) Professor Brian Tanner (E) Elizabeth (Hammie) Tappenden (E) Tecna Display Tenmat (I) The A P M Group The Clinical Trial Company The Moller Centre For Continuing Education Thomas...
...Its professed purpose is to show how political liberty and scientific advance have reinforced each other, reminding us how many of the Enlightenment thinkers and political leaders, such as Thomas Jefferson...
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