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Theme restaurant 
 Theme restaurants may be experiencing a decline in popularity, given the closings of several Planet Hollywood, Jekyll & Hyde Club, and Wilderness Cafe locations in recent years.
Theme restaurant 
 Certain tourist destinations such as the Mall of America or Orlando, Florida have better chances of supporting theme restaurants.
John Laing plc 
 John Laing plc is a British developer and operator of privately financed, public sector infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, hospitals and schools.
John Laing plc 
 Before being bought by Henderson Private Equity in December 2006, John Laing plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was part of the FTSE 250 Index.
John Laing plc 
 James Laing (born in 1816), along with his wife Ann Graham, and some employees whom they had hired, built a house on a plot of land that they had bought for £30 in Cumberland.
John Laing plc 
 The £150 proceeds from the first house financed the building of the next two houses on the same plot of land.
John Laing plc 
 When James Laing died in 1882, his son, John Laing (born in 1842) took over the running of the company.
John Laing plc 
 John's son, John William Laing, (born in 1879) was working for the business before he was 20 years old, and so it became John Laing and Son.
John Laing plc 
 In 1920 the firm became a limited company, and two years later moved its headquarters from Carlisle to a thirteen acre (5 ha) site at Mill Hill in north-west London.
John Laing plc 
 William Kirby Laing and John Maurice Laing, the fifth generation of the founding family, joined the company in 1950.
John Laing plc 
 Home construction in the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Spain, and California was now one of the major sources of the company's growth.
John Laing plc 
 As the company celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1998, it faced falling profits caused by cost overruns on the Millennium project and continuing problems within its construction division, related to competition and overcapacity.
John Laing plc 
 In 1999 John Laing plc purchased a controlling interest in the Chiltern Rail franchise and by 2002 had structured itself into two main divisions, namely Homes and Investments.
John Laing plc 
 For the first time in its history Laing did not have a member of the founding family at the head of the company.
John Laing plc 
 The business expanded rapidly in the late 1990s, such that for the year ended 31 December 2001 its turnover was in excess of £1 billion.
John Laing plc 
 Following significant losses on certain construction contracts it adopted a new policy of having the PPP / PFI businesses, in which it had been quite successful, as core activities.
John Laing plc 
 As a consequence it disposed of its construction division, which was sold to O'Rourke in 2001, its property developments divisions, which were sold to Kier Group, and its house building arm which was sold to George Wimpey in 2002.
John Laing plc 
 The Laing Rail division - operators of Chiltern Railways and London Overground (with MTR Corporation), and holders of a stake in the open-access railway operator Wrexham & Shropshire - was put up for sale by in September 2007.
John Laing plc 
 The division was purchased by German rail operator Deutsche Bahn in January 2008, subject to approval by authorities.
John Laing plc 
 In June 2008 John Laing formed a consortium with Hitachi and Barclays Private Equity called Agility Trains to bid for the contract to design, manufacture, and maintain a fleet of long-distance trains for the Intercity Express Programme.
John Laing plc 
 John Laing’s former construction division, Laing Construction, undertook a number of landmark projects including:
John Laing plc 
 The M1 motorway completed in 1959, Coventry Cathedral completed in 1962, Clifton Cathedral completed in 1973, the Sizewell B nuclear power station completed in 1995, the Second Severn Crossing completed in 1996, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff completed in 1999 and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital completed in 2001.
John Laing plc 
 The subsidiary Laing Rail owned and operated Chiltern Railways and was joint operator of London Overground (with MTR Corporation) and Wrexham & Shropshire (with Renaissance Trains).
Christian Eriksen 
 Christian Dannemann Eriksen (born 14 February 1992) is a Danish footballer who plays for the Italian club Inter Milan and the Denmark national team as an midfielder.
Christian Eriksen 
 He made his debut for the Denmark national team in March 2010, and was the youngest player of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Christian Eriksen 
 In 2011, Eriksen was named Danish Football Player of the Year, Dutch Football Talent of the Year, Ajax Talent of the Year (Marco van Basten Award), and made the UEFA Euro U-21 Team of the Tournament.
Christian Eriksen 
 He won the Eredivisie with Ajax in 2010–11, 2011–12, and in 2012–13 before signing with Tottenham Hotspur in August 2013.
Christian Eriksen 
 He won the Tottenham Hotspur Player of the Year award for the 2013–14 season and in 2015, he won the Danish Football Player of the Year award for the second year in a row.
Christian Eriksen 
 His team lost the semi-final against Brøndby IF, but afterwards he was named "Best Technical Player" of the tournament.
Christian Eriksen 
 After some good performances for OB's U-16 team and later on U-19 team and the Danish U-17 team, major European football clubs including Chelsea and Barcelona began to take notice.
Christian Eriksen 
 The player had trials with Barcelona, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Manchester United and Milan, but finally decided to move to Ajax, stating "My first step should not be too big.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 17 October 2008 it was announced that Eriksen had signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Amsterdam-based Ajax.
Christian Eriksen 
 He worked his way through the youth teams, and was promoted to the first team squad in January 2010, where he was given the number 51 shirt.
Christian Eriksen 
 Within the month, he made his first team debut for the Dutch team in the Eredivisie on 17 January 2010 against NAC Breda.
Christian Eriksen 
 Ajax manager Martin Jol compared him to the likes of Ajax youth products Wesley Sneijder and Rafael van der Vaart and described him as a good reader of the game in the traditional "number 10" role like the two Dutch internationals and Danish legend Michael Laudrup, who also played for Ajax.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 25 March 2010 he scored his first goal for Ajax in a 6–0 win against opponent Go Ahead Eagles in the Dutch Cup.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 10 April 2010, Eriksen extended his contract with Ajax until the summer of 2014, stating "I can still learn a lot here, I'm not finished yet and I hope I can mean a lot for the club."
Christian Eriksen 
 On 6 May 2010, Eriksen played in the second match of the final of the 2009–10 Dutch Cup as Ajax beat Feyenoord 1–4, with 1–6 on aggregate.
Christian Eriksen 
 At the end of his first professional season at Ajax, Eriksen had played 21 competitive matches, scoring one goal, and had made his international debut for Denmark.
Christian Eriksen 
 Eriksen started the 2010–11 season well, scoring his first Ajax league goal on 29 August 2010 in an away victory over De Graafschap.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 11 November 2010, Eriksen scored his first goal at the Amsterdam ArenA a 3–0 Cup victory over BV Veendam.
Christian Eriksen 
 Several days after receiving this award, Eriksen once again proved his value to Ajax by scoring the only goal in a 0–1 away league victory over Vitesse.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 17 February 2011, Eriksen scored his first goal in a European tournament, the Ajax goal to 2–0, when Ajax beat Anderlecht 3–0 in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 13 March 2011, Eriksen scored a solo goal, running from the half way line to finish it off with a strike to secure a 3–1 win over Willem II.
Christian Eriksen 
 During the rest of the season, Eriksen became more and more important for Ajax, due to his growing capabilities as the team's playmaker, providing many assists.
Christian Eriksen 
 After a good season during which he developed himself into an undisputed starter in the side that won the 2010–11 Eredivisie (Ajax's first Eredivisie title in seven years), he was named Ajax's Talent of the Year.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 23 May 2011 he was named Dutch Football Talent of the Year, the second Danish player to win the award since Jon Dahl Tomasson in 1996.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 18 October 2011, Eriksen scored his first goal in the UEFA Champions League when Ajax beat Dinamo Zagreb 2–0 in the group stage, making him the 2nd youngest player to score in the 2011–12 season.
Christian Eriksen 
 In the second match versus Dinamo Zagreb on 2 November he provided assists to Gregory van der Wiel and Siem de Jong as well as being involved with the third goal, as Ajax cruised to a 4–0 victory.
Christian Eriksen 
 He was named Danish Football Player of the Year on 7 November after helping Ajax win the Eredivisie the previous year and guiding the national team to a successful Euro 2012 qualification campaign, after receiving the award Eriksen said, "I am extremely honoured to be standing here tonight.
Christian Eriksen 
 Following the success of Eriksen's third consecutive Eredivisie title in the 2012–13 season, he opted not to renew his contract with Ajax, and with one year still remaining on his current contract he was permitted to search for a new club.
Christian Eriksen 
 Having come to terms with Tottenham Hotspur in England, Eriksen left Ajax having appeared in 113 league matches, scoring 25 goals and 41 assists.
Christian Eriksen 
 He made 30 appearances on the continental stage for Ajax, scoring three goals, and making 9 assists all together.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 30 August 2013, Tottenham Hotspur announced that they had completed the transfer of Eriksen from Ajax, in a deal believed to be worth £11 million (€13.5 million), after Eriksen passed a medical at the club.
Christian Eriksen 
 Eriksen joined the club on the same day as Erik Lamela, who joined from Roma, and Vlad Chiricheș, who joined from Steaua București, and took the club's total spending for the 2013 summer transfer window to £109.5 million.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 14 September 2013, he made his Premier League debut against Norwich City, providing an assist for Gylfi Sigurðsson.
Christian Eriksen 
 Spurs manager André Villas-Boas commented: "It was a great debut for Christian, he is a pure number 10, a creative player and his individual quality made all the difference."
Christian Eriksen 
 On 19 September 2013, Eriksen "clipped a wonderful dipping shot" over the goalkeeper to score his first Tottenham goal and complete a 3–0 win over Tromsø IL in the Europa League.
Christian Eriksen 
 He added to his Tottenham goal tally with a goal from a free kick in a 1–1 draw against West Bromwich Albion on Boxing Day 2013, and the second goal in Spurs''' 2–1 win against Manchester United on 1 January 2014.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 23 March, after goals from Jay Rodriguez and Adam Lallana had given Southampton a 2–0 lead against Tottenham at White Hart Lane, Eriksen scored twice to level the score and assisted Gylfi Sigurðsson to score the winning goal.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 12 April 2014, he scored a stoppage-time equalizer as Spurs came from 3–0 down to draw 3–3 at West Bromwich Albion.
Christian Eriksen 
 The Danish international had a habit of scoring late winners, most notably against Swansea City, Sunderland, Hull City and many others.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 10 January 2015, Eriksen was voted Danish Football Player of the Year twice in a row, making him the first player to do so since William Kvist.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 28 January 2015, Eriksen completed his greatest performance of the campaign in the Capital One Cup semi-final second leg against Sheffield United to send Tottenham into the League Cup Final.
Christian Eriksen 
 His first goal, a 30-yard curling free kick, was plauded by the likes of Michael Owen and Gary Neville among others on Twitter.
Christian Eriksen 
 Despite a late threat from the Blades, Eriksen then scored a second late-on to send Spurs to Wembley.
Christian Eriksen 
 Eriksen completed the 2014/15 campaign having featured in every Premier League game for Mauricio Pochettino.
Christian Eriksen 
 The Dane became the third Spurs player to reach double figures in the league, alongside Nacer Chadli and Harry Kane, scoring 10 goals.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 9 June 2015, Eriksen confirmed to Danish media whilst on international duty that he would stay at Tottenham for the foreseeable future.
Christian Eriksen 
 Eriksen was quoted as saying: "I feel right at home at Tottenham and I haven't thought about leaving yet."
Christian Eriksen 
 Eriksen was called up to the Denmark national under-17 football team in July 2007, and impressed in his debut for the team on 31 July.
Christian Eriksen 
 In 2008, he scored 9 goals in 16 games for the U-17s, and was named Danish U-17 Talent of the Year by the Danish FA.
Christian Eriksen 
 He was also one of four nominees for the 2008 Danish Talent of the Year award, which was won by Mathias Jørgensen.
Christian Eriksen 
 Eriksen was also called up for the Danish U-21 squad to the European championship in Denmark in 2011, the Danish team only participated in the group stage and Eriksen scored a goal against Belarus.
Christian Eriksen 
 He received his first senior Denmark call-up in February 2010, making his debut in Denmark's friendly match against Austria in March, to become Denmark's fourth youngest full international, being the youngest debutant since Michael Laudrup.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 28 May 2010, Denmark coach Morten Olsen announced that Eriksen would be part of the final squad of 23 participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Christian Eriksen 
 At the World Cup, Eriksen played two matches, against the Netherlands and Japan, but Denmark were unable to progress beyond the group stage.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 9 February 2011, in a 1–2 friendly loss at home against England, Eriksen was named Man of the Match, and was praised for his performance by a number of prominent footballing figures, including Chelsea star Frank Lampard, Man Utd star Rio Ferdinand (on Twitter), manager Morten Olsen and several media experts in Denmark and England.
Christian Eriksen 
 On 4 June 2011 Eriksen scored his first national team goal, to give Denmark a 2–0 lead over Iceland in their Euro 2012 qualifier.
Christian Eriksen 
 In doing so, he became the youngest Danish player ever to score a goal in European qualification, being 9 days younger than Michael Laudrup when he scored his first goal in 1983.
Christian Eriksen 
 In 2012, Eriksen signed a sponsorship kit deal with American sportswear and equipment supplier, Nike.
Christian Eriksen 
 He appeared in an advert for the new Nike Green Speed II alongside Raheem Sterling, Stephan El Shaarawy, Mario Götze, Eden Hazard and Theo Walcott in November 2012.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM, FRIBA, FCSD, RDI (born 1 June 1935) is an English architect.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 In 1999, he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 They moved, soon after his birth, two miles to 4 Crescent Grove in Levenshulme, Manchester, which they rented for fourteen shillings (70p) a week: Foster has no recollection of Reddish.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster's parents were diligent, hard workers – so diligent that Foster, as an only child, felt their heavy workload restricted his relationship with them and he was often looked after by neighbours or other family members.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 In a Guardian interview in 1999, Foster said he always felt 'different' at school and was bullied and he retired into the world of books.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster described Manchester as "one of the workshops of the world" and "the embodiment of a great city", his father, Robert, worked at Metropolitan-Vickers, Trafford Park which fuelled Foster's interest in engineering and design.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Specific interests included aircraft, a hobby he maintains today; and trains, generated by viewing passing trains on the railway outside his terraced home during his childhood.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 After he was discharged, in 1956 Foster attended the University of Manchester's School of Architecture and City Planning.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Later, Foster won the Henry Fellowship to the Yale School of Architecture, where he earned his Master's degree Foster also met Richard Rogers at Yale.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Then he set up an architectural practice as Team 4 with Rogers and the sisters Georgie and Wendy Cheesman.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster took a job as assistant to a contract manager with John Bearshaw and Partners, a local architectural practice.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 The staff advised him, that if he wished to become an architect, he should prepare a portfolio of drawings using the perspective and shop drawings from Bearshaw's practice as an example.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Bearshaw was so impressed with the drawings that he promoted the young Foster to the drawing department of the practice.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 In 1956 Foster won a place at the University of Manchester School of Architecture and City Planning.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster was not eligible for a maintenance grant so took up a number of part-time jobs to fund his studies, becoming an ice-cream salesman, night-club bouncer and working night shifts at a bakery to make crumpets.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster took a keen interest in the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer and graduated from Manchester in 1961.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster won the Henry Fellowship to the Yale School of Architecture, where he met future business partner Richard Rogers and earned his master's degree.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 After returning to the UK in 1963 he set up an architectural practice as Team 4 with Rogers and the sisters Georgie and Wendy Cheesman.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Georgie (later Wolton) was the only one of the team that had passed her RIBA exams allowing them to set up in practice on their own.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 After Team 4 went their separate ways, Foster and Wendy Cheesman founded Foster Associates, which later became Foster and Partners in 1967.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 A long period of collaboration with American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller began in 1968 and continued until Fuller's death in 1983.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 They collaborated on several projects that became catalysts in the development of an environmentally sensitive approach to design – including the Samuel Beckett Theatre project.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster and Partners' breakthrough building in the UK was the Willis Faber & Dumas headquarters in Ipswich, of 1974.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 The client was a family run insurance company which wanted to restore a sense of community to the workplace.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 In a town not over-endowed with public facilities, the roof gardens, 25 metre swimming pool and gymnasium enhanced the quality of life for the company's 1200 employees.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 The building has a full-height glass façade moulded to the medieval street plan and contributes drama, subtly shifting from opaque, reflective black to a glowing backlit transparency as the sun sets.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 The design was inspired by the Daily Express Building in Manchester a work Foster admired in his youth.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, an art gallery and museum on the campus of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, was one of the first major public buildings to be designed by Foster, completed in 1978, and became grade II* listed in December 2012.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 In 1990 Foster's design for the Terminal Building at London Stansted Airport was awarded the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 The building is marked by its high level of light transparency, as all 3500 workers have a view to Victoria Peak or Victoria Harbour.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster believes that attracting young talent is essential, and is proud that the average age of people working for Foster and Partners is 32, just like it was in 1967.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 In 2004, Foster designed the tallest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct in Southern France, with the Millau Mayor Jacques Godfrain stating; "The architect, Norman Foster, gave us a model of art."
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 In January 2007, The Sunday Times reported that Foster had called in Catalyst, a corporate finance house, to find buyers for Foster + Partners.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster does not want to retire, but wants to sell his 80-90% holding in the company valued at £300M to £500M.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 In 2007, he worked with Philippe Starck and Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group for the Virgin Galactic plans.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster designed the Apple Campus in Cupertino and is currently designing most of their Apple stores.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster currently sits on the Board of Trustees at architectural charity Article 25 who design, construct and manage innovative, safe, sustainable buildings in some of the most inhospitable and unstable regions of the world.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 He has recently set up the Norman Foster Foundation which promotes interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists to anticipate the future.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Foster recently set up his personal Instagram account under the username @officialnormanfoster where he publishes photos of his everyday life
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 In 1999, he was created a life peer, as Baron Foster of Thames Bank, of Reddish in the County of Greater Manchester.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 He was a Crossbencher; he resigned from the House of Lords in 2010 because he refused to pat UK taxes on his foreign earnings.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Norman Foster is the second British architect to win the Stirling Prize twice: the first for the American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 1998, and the second for 30 St Mary Axe in 2004.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers and winner of the Minerva Medal, the Society's highest award.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Most recently, in September 2007, Foster was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the largest architectural award in the world, for the University of Technology Petronas, in Malaysia.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 It was announced in January 2008 that Foster was to be awarded an honorary degree from the Dundee School of Architecture at the University of Dundee.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 In 2012, Foster was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt.
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank 
 Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires.