Roche

Pritzker Prize winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. He reached the top of his profession, but had little interest in celebrity and eschews the label “Starchitect”. Despite a lifetime of acclaimed work that includes 40 years designing new galleries for The Met in New York, he had no intention of ever retiring. He graduated from UCD in 1945, and after more than 60 years in the USA, his first Irish project, the Convention Centre Dublin, opened in 2010. Roche's architectural philosophy focused on creating “a community for a modern society” and he has been credited with creating green buildings before they became part of the public consciousness. He has won awards for his designs of over 300 major buildings around the world, among them the Pritzker Prize in 1982 - the highest honour given to a living architect.

Invisible 1’ it’s sometimes good to keepadmirers at a distance. For her “come-back” album, Brisa Roché follows this rule to the letter.After four albums in France, she returned to her native California — not the one with six-lane highwaysand palm trees, but the one up north, where mountain lions roam, and sequoi as tower. There, hiddenin her home-studio, she channeled song after song, inspired by tracks arriving from producers all over the world. Some sent sound hoping to re-provoke songwriting in the vein of jazz-singer.

Quelque part dans l océan Indien, une jeune femme se noie. Ses forces l abandonnent mais sa pensée, tel un animal sur le point de mourir, se cambre : dans un ultime sursaut de vie et de révolte, la naufragée nous entraîne dans le récit de sa vie…
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La cara vecchia Adeline se n’è andata, ma il suo spettro aleggia ancora nelle stanze di Jalna e le sue parole riecheggiano nei corridoi della tenuta; la sua ultima beffa, poi, è ancora sulla bocca di tutti. Finch ne è ben consapevole: il ventunesimo compleanno si avvicina, e con esso il momento in cui avrà accesso al patrimonio della nonna. La questione è spinosa, e il ricordo dello sconcerto dei suoi familiari all’apertura del testamento lo tormenta…