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The venerable Braham Murray directs the world premiere of a dark comedy which should have some really meaty parts for women in a cast headed by Teresa Banham and Jan Ravens.
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He then hired a billboard on the Santa Monica freeway that said simply: "Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles."
Five Best: Simon Jenkins Simon Jenkins 2011
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From the Watts Towers to the rolling Malibu surf, Banham open people's eyes to cities built for a modern age.
Five Best: Simon Jenkins Simon Jenkins 2011
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The RIBA inquiry, to be conducted by Sir John Banham, a former director-general of the CBI and former chair of the Tarmac group, is expected to report by next summer and will feed into the government's proposals to alter planning rules.
RIBA condemns 'shameful shoe box homes' now built in Britain 2011
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The city at the time was often reviled for its soulless car culture, but Banham celebrated it in "Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies."
Five Best: Simon Jenkins Simon Jenkins 2011
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To study his favorite city in the 1960s, the British architecture critic Reyner Banham first had to learn to drive, "to read Los Angeles in the original."
Five Best: Simon Jenkins Simon Jenkins 2011
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According to Pr-Inside. com, "Banham Carter's relatives were on a safari holiday in the country when a minibus they were travelling in on Wednesday (20Aug08) spun out of control and flipped over after a tire burst."
Helena Bonham Carter Stops Film Terminator Because Of Family Tragedy 2008
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In the same vein, even as the Case Study architects purified the International Style, they also feminized and downscaled it (seldom have great architects lavished such attention nearly exclusively on the small single-family house) with their jaunty touch, and eschewed what Banham called “that heroic-style creative angst of the European-based modern movement.”
California Cool 2008
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Navy during World War II that the Eameses had initially developed the plywood-molding system that allowed for the production of their DCM chair — a piece of furniture the British architectural historian Reyner Banham has declared no less than “the most compelling artefact of its generation.”
California Cool 2008
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Banham started his career in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, after gaining a degree in natural sciences.
Richard Lambert steps down early as CBI director general 2010
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