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Top UK architect condemns Renzo Piano’s ‘Paddington Shard’

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When you submit a planning application for a big new building you can expect a few letters of objection from annoyed residents – but not perhaps a detailed condemnation of your plan from one of Britain’s most celebrated architects. That is what has happened to the Paddington Place scheme – a huge development around the eponymous London station intended to include a 72-storey tower designed by Renzo Piano, the Italian architect who created the Shard. Related: The 'Paddington Shard' row shines Read more [...]

Plan to covert Grade II listed school into apartments

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A planning application has been submitted to convert a historic private school into nine apartments. The planning application is to turn Winston House Preparatory School, in High Road, South Woodford into nine flats and a build a separate two-storey building for use as a nursery, along with parking and communal amenity facilities. The school building is a Grade II listed building, meaning it is of special historical and architectural importance. Read more [...]

Lippo Karawaci Shares Up After Kuta Mall Sale to Singapore-Listed Investment Trust

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Jakarta. Shares of property developer Lippo Karawaci, one of the biggest such companies in Indonesia, rose by 1.5 percent on Tuesday, after the announcement of a plan to move the assets of its shopping center in Bali into an affiliated real estate investment trust in Singapore, the Lippo Malls Indonesia Retail Trust (LMIRT).In a listing on the local stock exchange on Tuesday, Ketut Budi Wijaya, president director of Lippo Karawaci, said the company, through an indirect subsidiary called Pamor Read more [...]

Playboy Mansion Listed For Sale For $200 Million

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Playboy Mansion Listed For Sale For $200 Million Details Published on Tuesday, 12 January 2016 16:59 A general view of the Playboy Mansion during the premiere of "The Transporter Refueled" in Los Angeles, California August 25, 2015. REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniThe iconic Los Angeles mansion of Hugh Hefner, the founder of the Playboy empire, is being put up for sale for $200 million, Playboy Enterprises said, one of the highest asking prices for a private residence in the United States. The Read more [...]

Major scheme for 700 homes at quarry site in Bradford could harm setting of …

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HERITAGE bosses have criticised major plans to build 700 homes at a quarry in Bradford as some of the houses will be built close to two neighbouring listed buildings. The Marshall family, which owns the Bolton Woods quarry, submitted outline plans for the 70-acre site in November. The land is next to a site already earmarked for a new £150 million urban village, including 1,000 homes. They are looking at alternative uses for the quarry, which supplies Yorkshire stone, Read more [...]

Playboy Mansion officially listed for $200million along with Hugh Hefner

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The iconic Playboy Mansion is officially being put up for sale for one of the highest asking prices for a private residence in the United States, but as a condition of the sale, Hugh Hefner can continue living there..Playboy Enterprises announced the West Los Angeles estate, the backdrop of many film shoots and celebrity parties, was listed on Monday for $200million.Hefner, the magazine's founder who is now 89, can continue living there as he has since the company bought the mansion 45 years ago Read more [...]

Yarloop’s first emergency alert came 25 minutes before bushfire razed WA town

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The first emergency alert mentioning Yarloop by name was issued just 25 minutes before a bushfire razed the Western Australian town, with earlier alerts just listing the names of roads that encircled the town, the state’s fire authority has confirmed. Residents of the heritage-listed town, 125km south of Perth, have criticised the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) for failing to warn them that the fire front was coming on Thursday night, with some saying the only warning they received Read more [...]

1st Kizumonogatari Film’s US Theaters, Dates Listed

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Aniplex of America announced the theater times and locations for its theatrical screening of Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu with English subtitles. The theaters showing the film are: Tempe, AZ: Harkins Theatres - Valley Art (February 26-March 3) Los Angeles, CA: Downtown Independent (February 26, 27) Sacramento, CA: Tower Theater (March 1, 5) San Diego, California: Angelika Carmel Mountain (March 1, 5) San Francisco, CA: New People (February 27) Littleton, CO: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Read more [...]

New Didsbury housing development to be named St James Park after village’s …

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A new housing development in Didsbury will be named after the village’s first recorded building - St James Park. A state-of-the-art primary school and 93 homes are due to be built at the former Manchester Metropolitan University site on Wilmslow Road. Developer PJ Livesey was given the green light to start work on the scheme by council planners in July and construction work is due to start in February. Bosses at Beaver Road Primary School will also build a new school for 420 pupils at the former Read more [...]