Hints and tips:
...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”....
...Not a beach book but lovely, perhaps, to flip through in a Mediterranean villa. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...The latter will feature 40 villas with private pools dotted around the lush 30 acres of Krabey Island....
...An entrepreneurial small businessman called Thomas Sharpe purchased the wood of the mulberry and started making souvenirs from it....
...One of the group read “Canto V”, the tale of Paolo and Francesca, who whirl eternally in each other’s arms through swirling gusts....
...Lord Burlington met “Kentino” in Italy, as did Thomas Coke of Holkham Hall, Norfolk, which Kent would eventually rebuild as a vast Veneto villa with a thumping Roman heart....
...“Canada has lost a giant and a great patriot,” Thomas d’Aquino, who served as President of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives from 1981 to 2009, said....
...For historic grandeur, Villa Vescovo, a former bishops’ residence complete with its own little church, is on sale for €1.5m through Miller Homes....
...Inherent Vice By Thomas Pynchon Jonathan Cape, £18.99 A more approachable offering than earlier doorstoppers such as V and Gravity’s Rainbow, this Californian yarn featuring pot-smoking private eye Larry...
...His rebel-comrade Thomas MacDonagh – who, along with Pearse, would be executed after the unsuccessful Rising – typified the spirit, writing dreamy, sentimental poems such as “Of a Poet Patriot”: “His songs...
...We meet the Thomas Edison of the 21st century, a legendary inventor whose revolutionary work is already having a positive impact on the environment and the economy....
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