Along the beachfront on the Thai island of Samui, vendors are busy setting up tables covered with souvenirs and sunglasses. Staff stand outside massage shops and restaurants gesture to passersby, hoping to entice in tourists.
Soon, there could be even more customers passing through the area. The island is
“Modernism is the prism for everything in the 20th century,” Christopher Wilk, Keeper of Furniture, Textiles, and Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, once said in an interview. “Modernism was to that century what Classicism was to previous centuries. After Modernism, there was only postmodernism.”
Environmental advocates in Florida say they are heartbroken that a wealthy investor who once intended to save a historic private island as a seabird preserve now wants to sell it for development into “Miami’s most exclusive address”.
Bird Key, one of only two natural islands in upper Biscayne Bay, was
Canadian pension funds have been among the world’s most prolific buyers of real estate, starting a revolution that inspired retirement plans around the globe to emulate them. Now the largest of them is taking steps to limit its exposure to the most-beleaguered property type — office buildings.
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