Los Angeles is a hat town. We are a city both blessed and cursed by the incessant, piercing golden rays that Angelenos cheerfully refer to as “sunshine.” Unless you want to become an everyday umbrella person (which I am always threatening to be), hats are the best option for protection.
Hats are also a way to differentiate yourself. On the Eastside, north of the 10, what you wear on your head is taken to an extreme. It’s here that the floppy-brimmed hat first flowered in Los Angeles during the fleeting era of the Nasty Gal. You can still see a fedora in Hollywood, Santa Monica or really any place that attracts tourists. I think I see a bucket hat every minute, like intermission at the New Radicals inauguration reunion concert.
UNIBAIL-RODAMCO SE: Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield completes the disposal of the Village 3, 4 and 6 office buildings Press release
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield completes the disposal of the Village 3, 4 and 6 office buildings
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) today announces the completion of the disposals of the Village 3, 4 and 6 office buildings, located in La Défense (Paris region) to French institutional investors. Agreements for the disposals were signed in December 2020.
Village 3 was sold to an institutional fund managed by La Française Real Estate Managers on March 4, 2021.
Village 4 and 6 were sold to institutional funds managed by Perial AM on March 17, 2021.
The total Net Disposal Price
1 of both transactions is €213 Mn. With these transactions, and the completion of the SHiFT disposal earlier this year, €0.8 Bn of the €4 Bn European asset disposal programme has been completed.
Wed, 17th Mar 2021 11:12
(Alliance News) - The following is a summary of top news stories Wednesday.
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Comments by the European Medicines Agency on the AstraZeneca vaccine are encouraging, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Tuesday. Today s preliminary statements from EMA are encouraging, they said in a statement released by Draghi s office, which added that they are ready to resume AstraZeneca jabs if the vaccine is cleared by the EU regulator. The EU s drug regulator said earlier Tuesday it remained firmly convinced of the benefits of AstraZeneca s coronavirus vaccine despite several countries suspending its use over blood clot fears. We are still firmly convinced that the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine in preventing Covid-19 with its associated risk of hospitalisation and death outweigh the risk of these side effects, EMA Chief Emer Cooke told an online press conference. French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Tuesday
Tourism Ireland’s annual Global Greening initiative has gone from strength to strength – from its beginning back in 2010, when just the Sydney Opera House and the Sky Tower in Auckland went green, to this year, which will be the biggest ever Global Greening.
From Rome to Rio and from London to Las Vegas, a host of famous buildings and sites around the world will be illuminated in green to mark St Patrick’s Day.
Iconic buildings include the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Niagara Falls, Victoria Falls, the Sydney Opera House, the ‘Welcome’ sign in Las Vegas, the Sky Tower in Auckland, Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Burj Al Arab in Dubai, the Prince’s Palace of Monaco and the Cibeles Fountain in Madrid.
Lacaton and Vassal met in the late 1970s at École Nationale Supérieure d Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux, before establishing their Paris-based studio, Lacaton & Vassal, in 1987.
The architects are best known for their positive attitude to renovation, describing demolition as an act of violence , as well as their numerous social housing projects across France.
Above: Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. Photo by Laurent Chalet. Top: the Transformation of 530 Dwellings in France
According to the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury, these are the key factors that led them to be recognised in this year s award. Not only have they defined an architectural approach that renews the legacy of modernism, but they have also proposed an adjusted definition of the very profession of architecture, the jury said.