A New Yorker took advantage of the heavy snow brought on by Winter Storm Jonas by building an igloo and listing it for $200-a-night on Airbnb. The hurricane-force blizzard dubbed "Snowzilla" may have brought New York and much of the East Coast to a standstill, but Patrick Horton and his friends used the time to have a little fun. They Read more [...]

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JOHNSON Controls today agreed to acquire Tyco International, creating a merged entity with revenues of more than $32bn (£22.4bn) that will be based in the low-tax haven Ireland. New York Stock Exchange-listed Johnson Controls is an American company that makes heating systems, car batteries and energy-efficiency measures for buildings, while Tyco produces fire protection and security systems. By taking over Tyco, which is headquartered in Cork, Ireland, Johnson Controls Read more [...]

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Comments (0) DATING from around 1790, and originally the local rectory, Beaumont House is a fine seven- bedroom Georgian house in the hamlet of Beaumont-cum-Moze, near Thorpe-le-Soken.Having only changed hands twice in the past 70 years, its rare Grade II listing reflects the fact that it retains its original character and fine period features to a quite exceptional degree."We had been living in the area for four or five years, and with three young daughters Read more [...]

Amazon Japan's product description for a TV Anime "Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans" Original Sound Tracks album is listing that the October 2015-March 2016 airing of the anime is the anime's "first season." Sunrise has not officially announced that the TV anime series would have a second season beyond the two cours (two quarters of a year) that it is slated to air. The album will ship on March 23 and will feature the anime's background music. The television anime series premiered in Read more [...]

Comments (0) Artworks by St Ives artist Barbara Hepworth are among a host of sculptures across England that have been newly listed.The 41 pieces include three sculptures by Hepworth, a Henry Moore artwork outside the Houses of Parliament and others depicting themes ranging from the power of electricity to the women's peace movement in Northern Ireland. Many were designed to breathe life back into the country's public spaces in the aftermath of the Second World Read more [...]

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Comments (0) Two sculptures in Milton Keynes have been listed as Grade II by Historic England, as part of an initative looking at post-war sculptures.Octo, by Wendy Taylor, was commissioned by Milton Keynes Development Corporation for the square outside Norfolk and Ashton Houses and the request to list it was made by Milton Keynes Forum last summer when there was a threat to remove the reflecting pool, which is an integral part of the composition.Although the Read more [...]

Our daily round-up of news from the art world Postwar Public Art Listed | 41 sculptures created for Britain’s civic spaces in the aftermath of the Second World War have been given Grade I II listed status, while a major exhibition at London’s Somerset House will draw attention to the astonishing number of 20th-century public artworks that have disappeared or been damaged since their installation. The list of works getting Historic England’s seal of approval throws up few surprises: artists Read more [...]