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...Its history is slow to reveal itself, sitting behind clouds of white, wafty flowers and a wall of Virginia creeper on the cusp of reddening....
...Depicted in thin washes over crisp, calligraphic drawing, his 1896 trio of St Marks’s facade, its crosses, spires and mosaics tinged pink or emerald or gold according to time of day, and the nocturne “The...
...On a windy night in 1825, its huge spire toppled over, leaving little standing....
...This week, the release of images of Amazon’s new HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia, provoked a rare event: architecture briefly lit up social media....
...The Atlantic Coast pipeline, which would have carried natural gas from wells in West Virginia to utilities on the east coast, was ditched last year after legal challenges sent costs soaring....
...Repton developed a gift for refreshing old and tired estates, for showing a client possibilities they had not seen for themselves: felling trees to open a view of a distant castle or spire, or damming a...
...When the club opened in 1932, Virginia Woolf and EM Forster were still part of the Bloomsbury Group of thinkers who met in drawing rooms around the neighbourhood’s grand squares....
...Running alongside these are delicate, brightly coloured paintings of pagodas, church spires and mythical beasts curling their tails and flexing their wings....
...Leslie Stephen, for example, the Victorian man of letters and father of Virginia Woolf, was first up the elegant spire of the Zinal Rothorn....
...This architectural language spread quickly to New England – the parents of Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in colonial America, in 1587, were parishioners of St Bride’s, and the parents...
...Still, Winchester always has the nearby town of Romney to look down upon – an economic wasteland just across the state lines in West Virginia....
...But our home towns are no longer what planners call the “traditional” or “medieval” city – the clump of spires and towers where that mouse fable took place, neatly separated from the surrounding countryside...
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