The Toothpick: Wooden skyscraper on top of Barbican could become Britain's second tallest building
The 80-storey, 300m-high wooden building would create 1,000 new residences
The 80-storey, 300m-high wooden building would create 1,000 new residences
One morning a TV broadcaster, thought of as a 'local treasure' on the network, laughed at me for saying I was finding the early mornings a struggle and let out a purse-lipped baby wail into my face
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The same old enemies are clanking around the black mountains of Karabagh: Russian power, Turkish expansionism and Armenian nationalism
From organising charity receptions in Downing Street to coordinating her personal work, parental responsibilities and state obligations there's more than a full job of work to do for an assistant
The US, with around 5 per cent of the world's population, accounts for 25 per cent of its prison inmates, many of them serving grotesquely long sentences for relatively minor drug and theft offences
The Panama Papers leak reminded the voters that Cameron is much better off than they are and therefore lives in a different world - Osborne and Johnson aren't much different
From Johnny Cash and Led Zeppelin to Everything But the Girl...
The real problem with 'real-ness' is that people desire it from their heroes, elected politicians and even columnists, but only in tiny smatterings
The London skyline is becoming increasingly dominated by tall towers made of steel and glass. Now something more extraordinary has been suggested to join the Shard, the Gherkin and even the Cheesegrater: a giant skyscraper made of wood.