Once breathtaking, now comforting

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Tours of the radically-designed BBC building Broadcasting House, which opened on May 13 1932, will be available in the summer of 1992 to celebrate its sixtieth anniversary. Colonel Val Myer used the odd-shaped site to build a ship-like, elegant building. Eric Gill's sculpture 'The Sower' is still the centrepiece of the marble Art Deco lobby. He also sculpted the figures of Prospero and Ariel over the entrance, which caused scandal. The building was considered untraditional in layout and design, recording equipment was innovative and the 22 studios were designed to suit the shows which were broadcast from them. BBC headquarters is now an unsophisticated new building at White City, West London as it outgrew Broadcasting House.

British Broadcasting Corp., Design and construction, Broadcasting industry, Sound studios

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At last, the rent they need is in sight

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Olympia & York (O&Y,) the Toronto-based development Company who built Canary Wharf Docklands office development in London, England are in a crisis situation. Forty per cent of Canary Wharf is unlet, thus threatening O&Y's 400 million pounds sterling contribution to the Jubilee line underground extension. The only unlet building is 15 stories high and the only one designed by local architects. Its glass cladding is different from the hard-edged American post-modern buildings. Different building style was a policy to create the illusion of a city built at different times. O&Y provides Canadian technical back-up to the British architects Jamie Troughton and John McAslan.

Finance, London, England, Olympia and York Canary Wharf Ltd.

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Like a magician, nature presented 120 seconds of breathtaking beauty

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Those who travelled to Cornwall, England, to view the total eclipse of the Sun on Aug 11, 1999, were not certain until shortly before it took place whether the weather conditions would be suitable for viewing it fully. There was heavy cloud, but many people still gathered in the spots where there was likely to be a good view. In fact, the eclipse itself proved to be a very exciting experience, with onlookers able to see the Baily's Beads, created by shafts of light cutting through the craters and valleys on the Moon's surface, and the explosion of light out of the corona.

United Kingdom, Social aspects, Eclipses, Solar, Solar eclipses

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