architecture
Published 23rd April 2021
Written by Oscar Holland, CNN
When New York s Equitable Life Building opened in 1870, the businessman behind the project, Henry Baldwin Hyde, was berated for having delusions of grandeur. Costing more than $4 million (around $81 million in today s money), his insurance company s headquarters soared a then-astonishing seven stories above the streets of Manhattan.
One hundred forty years later, when the 163-floor Burj Khalifa topped out half a mile into Dubai s sky, it too was seen by some as extravagant. Both buildings serve as a reminder that it is not only economics and technology that have driven the history of skyscrapers, but symbolism and ego, too.
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How Covid lockdowns are wiping out the gains made by disadvantaged children
Gap between disadvantaged pupils and peers increases as children lost on average three months of learning by end of summer
29 December 2020 • 9:00pm
School closures have seen the gap between disadvantaged children and their peers grow
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Social mobility gains that have given a lift to disadvantaged children over the past decade could be wiped out by Covid lockdowns, one of Britain s leading education research bodies has said.
Carole Willis, the chief executive of the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), said its studies showed the gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers had increased by almost half as children lost, on average, three months of learning by the end of this summer.