Sir Roger De Haan, who renovated and refurbished many of the buildings in the old town, offering the properties to creatives, provided education and sporting facilities (the latest of which the world’s first multi-storey skatepark), and restored and remodelled the derelict harbour area. The co...
'The first storey had been the farm workers' living area. Its floor had given way and a huge heap of debris - masonry, a bath tub, bricks and roof tiles - had crashed from the upper floor into the old cattle stall below. The vast oak beam that was the building's sole means of ...
THE gleaming new Jaguar looked strangely out of place as it pulled up beneath the grimy tower block, a 12- storey nightmare of crumbling flats, graffiti-strewn walls and stinking stairwells. From behind the clotheslines stretched across dozens of dismal balconies, curious tenants peered down. ...
The five-storey, redbrick pile in Chelsea is not the sort of home you'd expect to be important to Tony Blair. It was once the base of Victorian society portrait painter John Singer Sargent, the Lucian Freud of his day. It was also in this high-ceiling former artists' studio that the...