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British Council

British Council (Consiliul Britanic în limba română) este o instituție guvernamentală a Regatului Unit care reprezintă cultura britanică în toată lumea. Țelul instituției este promovarea culturii Regatului Unit în alte țări și colaborarea în domeniile culturii și învățământului. British Council, fondat în 1934, este reprezentat în 109 țări și teritorii, președintele consiliului fiind Neil Kinnock. 65% din bugetul consiliului este generat prin predarea și coordonarea lecțiilor de engleză în străinătate, iar restul este plătit de Oficiul pentru Afaceri Externe. În anul 2006, British Council avea o rețea de 229 de noduri la nivel global. Organizatia asigură, între altele, formarea în leadership civic, club de lectură pentru copii și seminarii de afaceri. British Council are o filială în România, cu sediul la București și filiale la Iași, Brașov, Cluj-Napoca și Timișoara. Instituția este responsabilă de promovarea culturii britanice, prin evenimente precum Festivalul Filmului Britanic, ținut în București, Timișoara, Cluj-Napoca și Iași. Vezi și Institutul Cultural Român Alliance française Goethe-Institut Institutul Cervantes Institut Camoes Institut Ramon Llull Note
Британски савет

Британски савет (енгл. British Council) је британска организација специјализована за међународне културне и образовне могућности. Делује у преко 100 земаља, а промовише шире познавање Уједињеног Краљевства и енглеског језика. Названа је продужетком спољне политике Уједињеног Краљевства, као и оруђем за пропаганду. Референце Спољашње везе Званични веб-сајт
British Council

British Council är en oberoende brittisk kulturorganisation, grundad 1934 och driven i offentlig regi. Dess syfte är att sprida kunskap om det brittiska samhället och kulturen samt att utveckla kulturella förbindelser mellan Storbritannien och andra länder. Särskild vikt läggs vid engelskaundervisning utomlands och utvecklingsbistånd i utbildningssektorn. British Council är representerat i ett flertal länder; de första utländska avdelningarna öppnades 1938 i Lissabon, Warsawa, Bukarest och Kairo. Det finns dessutom servicecenter i Storbritannien där besökare från andra länder kan få vägledning. Se även Goethe-institut Konfuciusinstitutet Referenser ”The British Council”. Store norske leksikon. 14 maj 2014. https://snl.no/The_British_Council. Läst 20 februari 2018. Noter
100 King Street

100 King Street, formerly the Midland Bank, is a former bank premises on King Street in Manchester, England. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1928 and constructed in 1933–35. It is Lutyens' major work in Manchester and was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1974. Architecture The architects for the former bank, a castle-like Art Deco building surrounded by roads on all four sides, were Lutyens in collaboration with Whinney, Son & Austen Hall. It was built between 1933 and 1935 by J. Gerrard & Sons of Swinton and features carvings by the local sculptor John Ashton Floyd. It is constructed of Portland stone around a steel frame. Its neoclassical design is unusual for Manchester; the style perhaps more suited to the architecture of Liverpool, as most of Manchester's buildings are Neogothic. "The proportions are ingeniously calculated, as Lutyens ... adored to do. The top stage is two-thirds of the stage from the obelisks to the next set-back, and that middle stage is two-thirds of the bottom stage." It is sometimes known as The King of King Street because of its distinct structure and height. From 1912, Lutyens laid out New Delhi as the new capital of India. He devised his own Delhi Order of classical architecture there, with small bells hanging from the capitals of the columns, and subsequently made use of this order in his design for the bank. History The bank was renamed HSBC Bank after HSBC acquired the Midland Bank in the 1990s. It closed on 6 June 2008 when HSBC relocated to St Ann's Square. The building was subsequently refurbished to provide office space and was placed on the office rental market in March 2010. Jamie Oliver opened an Italian restaurant in the former banking hall in 2011, which closed in 2019 after the company went into administration. A plan to convert the upper floors of the building into a boutique hotel was announced in 2013. In April 2015, the Hotel Gotham opened on the upper floors of the building. In August 2022, Gordon Ramsay announced that he planned to open a restaurant in the unit formerly occupied by Jamie's Italian. 'Lucky Cat Manchester', Ramsey's Tokyo-themed restaurant, opened at the site on 1 June 2023. The restaurant spans three floors and features a private dining room situated in the underground bank vault. See also Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester Listed buildings in Manchester-M2 References Citations Bibliography Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004). Lancashire: Manchester and the South East. The Buildings of England. New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10583-5. Hartwell, Clare (2001). Manchester. Pevsner Architectural Guides. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071131-7.
10 Admiral Grove

10 Admiral Grove, a property in Toxteth, Liverpool, England, is the house in which Ringo Starr lived for twenty years before he rose to fame with the Beatles. Starr's infant school, St. Silas Primary School, on Pengwern Street, was yards away from his front door. He was a sickly child and, due to his many absences from school, was taught to read and write at home. A severe bout of peritonitis led him to spend much of his seventh year at the Royal Children’s Hospital. When Starr was 13, his mother Elsie married a Londoner, Harry Graves. The Starkeys' local pub, The Empress, where Elsie was a barmaid, adjoins Admiral Grove. The pub was featured on the front cover of Starr's first solo album Sentimental Journey (1970). During "Beatlemania", the documentary The Mersey Sound, filmed by BBC producer Don Haworth, showed Starr being mobbed by fans on Admiral Grove as he made his way to George Harrison's open-topped sports car. Birthplace in Madryn Street On 7 July 1940, Richard Starkey was born at 9 Madryn Street in the Welsh Streets in the Liverpool district known as Toxteth. The neighbourhood was heavily damaged by aerial bombing during the Second World War. His parents, Richard and Elsie, rented a house at 9 Madryn Street for 10 shillings (£0.50) a week. His parents separated when Starr was three years old, and Elsie and her son moved to the smaller, less expensive two-up two-down house at 10 Admiral Grove. This remained Starr's home until 1963, when he became famous. In 2010, it was announced that Starr's Madryn Street birthplace, as well as other houses in the Welsh Streets region, was to be demolished. Local groups called for its preservation, and the city had to board up the house due to relic hunters stealing bricks. An online petition demanding that the house be preserved by the National Trust collected nearly 4,000 signatures. In 2012, Housing Minister Grant Shapps confirmed that the house would be saved from demolition. In January 2013, it was announced that local residents had backed a development plan that would include the restoration of 9 Madryn Street. However, the Department for Communities and Local Government announced in September 2013 that it would hold a public inquiry into the plans. In The Beatles Anthology, Starr is quoted as saying: "I don’t remember the inside of our house in Madryn Street, I was a baby". However, he does remember his grandparents' house, which was also on Madryn Street. Legacy Elsie and Harry were persuaded to leave Admiral Grove for a house Starr had bought them in the Gateacre district of Liverpool. Starr would pay homage to both his Madryn Street and Admiral Grove addresses in his 2008 song "Liverpool 8". In 2016, the house at 10 Admiral Grove was purchased by a Beatles fan who also owns houses owned previously by George Harrison and John Lennon's mother Julia. See also 12 Arnold Grove – birthplace of George Harrison 20 Forthlin Road – childhood home of Paul McCartney; a National Trust property 251 Menlove Avenue – childhood home of John Lennon; another National Trust property References
10 Admiral Grove

Le 10 Admiral Grove à Liverpool, dans le quartier Toxteth, est la maison d'enfance de Ringo Starr, célèbre batteur des Beatles. Historique Elle a été achetée par Jackie Holmes en 2016, celle-là même qui a acheté la maison d'enfance de George Harrison, au 25 Upton Green, en 2014 et l'année suivante, celle dans laquelle habitait la mère de John Lennon lorsqu'il était adolescent, au 9 Newcastle Road. La maison natale du batteur, au 9 Madryn Street à quelques pas de là, a été sauvée de la démolition en 2012 grâce à des protestations par les habitants du quartier. L'édifice abritant le pub The Empress, qui orne la pochette de son album Sentimental Journey, se situe au bout d'Admiral Grove. En 2008, Starr fait référence aux deux rues de son enfance dans la chanson Liverpool 8 de l'album homonyme. Annexes Articles connexes Ringo Starr 251 Menlove Avenue 20 Forthlin Road 12 Arnold Grove Références Portail des Beatles Portail de Liverpool
10 Admiral Grove

10 Admiral Grove is een huis in Liverpool. Hier woonde de Beatles-drummer Ringo Starr gedurende zijn kindertijd van circa 1946 tot 1963. Nadat zijn ouders scheidden, kwam hij op driejarige leeftijd op dit adres aan 10 Admiral Grove te wonen. Het is een rijtjeshuis in het stadsdeel Dingle. In de documentaire The Mersey Sound (1963) is het huis te zien, terwijl een uitzinnige menigte hem en George Harrison omringen. In 1963 vond ook de doorbraak van The Beatles plaats en verliet Starr, eigenlijk Richard Starkey, deze woning. Zijn ouders vertrokken later naar de wijk Gateacre. In het lied Liverpool 8 vereeuwigde Ringo Starr deze straat en ook Madryn Street, waar hij op nummer 9 geboren werd. Hierin zingt hij Liverpool I left you, said 'goodbye' to Madryn Street aan het begin van het lied en sluit hij het laatste couplet af met Admiral Grove als vervangende straatnaam. Het huis werd in 2016 tijdens een veiling gekocht door een Beatlefan. Ervoor had ze ook al het huis van de moeder van John Lennon gekocht, evenals het huis van George Harrison in de wijk Speke. Zie ook The Beatles Story (museum in Liverpool) 9 Newcastle Road, geboortehuis van John Lennon 251 Menlove Avenue, later huis waar John Lennon opgroeide 20 Forthlin Road, ouderlijk huis van Paul McCartney 12 Arnold Grove, geboortehuis van George Harrison
10 Firwood Fold

10 Firwood Fold is a 16th-century house in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is a Grade I listed building and was the birthplace of English inventor Samuel Crompton in 1753. The Crompton family lived in the house until 1758, making a living from farming and weaving, before moving to rented quarters at nearby Hall i' th' Wood. In 1969 the hamlet of Firwood Fold was designated Bolton's first conservation area, ensuring protection of its historic character. The unified appearance of the hamlet—simple style, local stone, and modest scale—has been preserved despite centuries of change. Gallery See also 15 Firwood Fold, a Grade II* listed building in the hamlet Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester Listed buildings in Bolton References
10 Palace Gate

10 Palace Gate is an apartment block in Palace Gate, in the Kensington area of London, England, designed by Wells Coates. Completed in 1939 for the builder Randall Bell, the building is a Modernist structure in the tradition of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, both of whom influenced Coates' work. Coates applied his own three-two system of spatial layout within this building for the first time, an idea he used to create variety within the units. The design, which divides the building into floors at various heights, enables the public spaces to be large and with high ceilings, while private portions of the flat such as bedrooms, bathrooms, service rooms and corridors were smaller in scale. In recent years heritage specialist – design & build contractor PAVEHALL PLC have sensitively refurbished and restored the entire building. The building is of significant interest to the 20th Century Society. The building is Grade II* listed. References External links "Wells Coates" on Design Museum "Listed Buildings Details Page – Palace Gate SW7" on The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea "3-Dimensonal" Units Yield Flexibility In London Apartment, by Wells Coates, Architect, Architectural Record, Nov. 1939, pp. 35-39
10 Palace Gate

10 Palace Gate é um bloco de apartamentos em Londres, na área de Kensington. Foi projetado por Wells Coates e concluído em 1939. O prédio é uma estrutura modernista dividido em pisos de diversas alturas, com espaços públicos grandes e tetos altos, enquanto que as partes privadas do plano, tais como quartos, banheiros, salas de serviço e corredores estão em menor escala. Referências
10 Palace Gate

10 Palace Gate är ett modernistiskt bostadshus i Kensington i London, färdigställt 1939 och ritat av arkitekten Wells Coates. Byggnaderna bär likheter med samtida verk av Le Corbusier och Walter Gropius. Lägenheterna är utformade med generösa sällskapsutrymmen med högt i tak, kombinerat med mindre privata utrymmen som sovrum och badrum. Se även Embassy Court Isokon Building Wells Coates Referenser Den här artikeln är helt eller delvis baserad på material från Engelskspråkiga Wikipedia, 10 Palace Gate, 11 mars 2009. Externa länkar Wikimedia Commons har media som rör 10 Palace Gate.
111 Piccadilly

111 Piccadilly, formerly Rodwell Tower, is a high-rise office building in Manchester city centre, England. It opened in 1965 and is now owned by Bruntwood. The tower is 64 m (210 ft) tall, which makes it the joint 74th-tallest building in Greater Manchester as of 2023. The building is located at the corner of Ducie Street (near Station Approach which leads to Manchester's main railway station, Manchester Piccadilly). It is the last building in Piccadilly which continues here as London Road. History The architects of the tower were Douglas Stephen & Partners who had to solve the constructional problem of building a high building over the Rochdale Canal. Its external appearance is enhanced by the eight enormous columns which carry the building above the canal; however the rendered finish did not look so good after a few years of rain. Refurbishment In 2020, the developer Bruntwood completed a refurbishment programme on 111 Piccadilly, including a 200 ft (61 m) high photovoltaic lighting installation on three sides of the building. Other technology in the building includes sensors monitoring air quality, space utilisation and energy usage. References
122–124 Colmore Row

122–124 Colmore Row is a Grade I listed building on Colmore Row in Birmingham, England. Built as the Eagle Insurance Offices it was later occupied by Orion Insurance and was Hudson's Coffee House until late 2011, It is currently Java Lounge Coffee House (as of July 2015). Completed in 1900, it was designed in an Arts and Crafts style by William Lethaby and Joseph Lancaster Ball. Pevsner's The Buildings of England: Warwickshire describes it as "one of the most original buildings of its date in England" and Foster's Birmingham (Pevsner Architectural Guides) as "one of the most important monuments of the Arts and Crafts Free Style in the country". Evenacre acquired the building in 2011 and undertook a £500,000 renovation of the building including restoration of the stone façade and interior works including a feature reception. In October 2014 CBRE started marketing the vacant building to potential tenants. References External links Historic England. "122 and 124 Colmore Row, B3 (1343375)". National Heritage List for England. Location, OpenStreetMap
122 Foregate Street, Chester

122 Foregate Street is a building at the corner of the north side of Foregate Street and the east side of Bath Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History The building was designed by the local architect John Douglas for Prudential Assurance, and constructed in 1902. It has since been used by the Lombard Bank and later as a shop. In the late 2000s it was a beauty salon and in 2009 planning permission was given by Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council for it to be converted into a café and offices. Architecture The building is constructed in red sandstone rubble and it has a red clay tile roof. Its style is "Douglas' Germanic 17th-century manner". The building has two storeys plus a loft in the roof. It stands adjacent to the terrace of houses designed by Douglas in Bath Street. The corner of the building between the streets is angled with an arched doorway in the ground floor. The upper storey is jettied and carried on consoles over pilasters flanking the door. This storey contains a mullioned three-light sash window over which is a cornice and a carving of the Chester City coat of arms. Above this a Baroque-shaped gable containing a two-light window and at its summit is an obelisk finial. The front facing Foregate Street contains three arched windows on the ground floor, the middle one being narrow than the others. The upper storey has eight sash windows over which are a frieze and a cornice. Over the easterly six windows is another Baroque-shaped gable similar to that over the entrance door, but larger. The front facing Bath Street has two arched windows at the north end, then an arched doorway. Beyond this in the south bay, are two sash windows. In the upper storey are nine sash windows; over the pair of windows in the south bay is a cartouche. Over the south bay is a plain gable with coping and a short finial. In the roof facing Foregate Street and in that facing Bath Street is a lucarne with a finial. Two brick chimney stacks rise from the roof. A stone screen with a balustrade links the building to the house at number 1 Bath Street. See also Grade II listed buildings in Chester (east) List of non-ecclesiastical and non-residential works by John Douglas References
125 London Wall

125 London Wall, also known as Alban Gate, is a postmodernist building on London Wall in the City of London. Along with Embankment Place and Vauxhall Cross (the SIS Building), it has been described as one of the three projects that established designer Sir Terry Farrell's reputation in the late 1980s-to-early 1990s period. In 2004, writer Deyan Sudjic described it as "postmodernism at its most exuberant", placing it at number 5 in a list of Ten Triumphs of recent UK architecture. History The district was once the northeast corner of the Roman settlement Londinium. Though one of the oldest settled parts of the city, the area was devastated during The Blitz. It was redeveloped in the postwar decades according to modernist planning principles centred on the automobile. London Wall became an "unpleasant 1960s dual carriageway", a "mini-motorway which acted as divisively upon its surroundings as the old wall had". The sites surrounding the roadway were developed under high-rise schemes including the Barbican Estate to the north. The site beside the road upon which Alban Gate was built was originally home to Lee House, a modernist office complex. In 1986, spurred by Margaret Thatcher's "Big Bang" deregulation of financial markets and the need for more large-floorplate modern office space, planning permission was granted for the demolition of Lee House. Design Construction of the complex began in 1990, and was completed in 1992 with 18 floors and a maximum height of 82 m (270 ft). Architects Terry Farrell and Partners sought to bridge the urban barrier of London Wall by utilising the air rights over the roadway. The complex is composed of two twin towers, set at a 90-degree angle to each other, with one straddling London Wall itself and offering pedestrian passage via an arcade housing shops and restaurants suspended over the road. The other tower sits on a heavily modelled podium meant to repair the urban fabric, countering the "agoraphobia" and poor pedestrian circulation of the earlier 1960s modernist schemes. The tower plinth and adjacent low romanesque block relate to the scale of surrounding buildings as well as shielding Monkwell Square, which had become a "service yard", from the motorway. Monkwell Square was redesigned and landscaped. Though the towers are visually distinct, their floorplates are actually connected and share a central service core. The 18th floor of one tower houses a special meeting suite. Tenants The building is well known as the former UK headquarters of JPMorgan Chase, one of the world's leading investment banks. Nabarro LLP leased 138,000 sq ft (12,800 m2) in 2012. Most of the building now holds Lloyds Banking Group offices. Ownership In 2000, MEPC plc sold the building for around £160 million. In July 2010, it was part of a group of six landmark London properties sold to the Carlyle Group for £671 million following the default of Simon Halabi's property companies. In 2014, the building was purchased by Blackstone for £300 million. Notes Bibliography Davies, Emma, ed. (2013). Collage and Context. London: Laurence King. ISBN 9781780672755.
12 Arnold Grove

12 Arnold Grove is the birthplace and early childhood home of former Beatle George Harrison. Located in Wavertree, Liverpool, near Picton Clock Tower, it is a small terraced house in a cul-de-sac, with a small alley to the rear. Harrison's parents, Harold and Louise, moved to the house in 1931 following their marriage. The rent was ten shillings a week. Here their four children were born: Louise (16 August 1931 – 29 January 2023), Harry (20 July 1934-), Peter (20 July 1940 – 1 June 2007) and George (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001). Harrison lived in the property for seven years, by the end of which his family had been living there for nearly 20 years. They finally moved out to 25 Upton Green in the Speke district of Liverpool in 1950. His eldest brother Harry recalled: "Our little house was just two rooms up and two rooms down, but, except for a short period when our father was away at sea, we always knew the comfort and security of a very close-knit home life." Harrison recalled that the only heating was a single coal fire, and the house was so cold in winter that he and his brothers dreaded getting up in the morning because it was freezing cold and they had to use the outside toilet. The house had tiny rooms – only ten feet by ten (three metres by three; 100 ft2, about 9 m2) – and a small iron cooking stove in the back room, which was used as a kitchen. Describing the back garden, Harrison wrote it had "a one-foot [30-centimetre] wide flowerbed, a toilet, a dustbin fitted to the back wall (and) a little hen house where we kept cockerels." Harrison once said of the house, "Try and imagine the soul entering the womb of a woman living at 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool 15. There were all the barrage balloons, and the Germans bombing Liverpool. All that was going on. I sat outside the house a couple of years ago, imagining 1943, nipping through the spiritual world, the astral level, getting back into a body in that house. That really is strange when you consider the whole planet, all the planets there may be on a spiritual level. How do I come into that family, in that house at that time, and who am I anyway?" In February 2024, it was announced that the home would receive a blue plaque, one of the first located outside of London; this was installed on 24 May 2024. See also Kinfauns – later Harrison home Friar Park – later Harrison home 251 Menlove Avenue – Childhood home of Beatle John Lennon, a National Trust property 20 Forthlin Road – Not the birthplace, but the later family home of Beatle Paul McCartney, another National Trust property 10 Admiral Grove – Ringo Starr's childhood home References
12 Arnold Grove

Le 12 Arnold Grove à Liverpool, dans le quartier Wavertree, est la maison où est né George Harrison, le guitariste des Beatles, et où il a passé une partie de son enfance pour ensuite déménager à l'âge de six ans au 25 Upton Green dans le quartier Speke. Annexes Articles connexes George Harrison 20 Forthlin Road 251 Menlove Avenue 10 Admiral Grove Portail des Beatles Portail de Liverpool