Top Gear Milan fashion show Ermenegildo Zegna Vukmirovic seARCH open air tower
WORDS: ADRIAN CLARK, LUCY FOSTER, MARK PICKERING
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Dutch overhaul open-air tower
Forty-metre-high lookout
platform raises you
above trees in style
If ShortList staff were
commissioned to design a
lookout post in a forest, we’d
probably attach a cardboard box
to the top of a stepladder, and
hope that would do. Thankfully,
architects with big building
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“Yeah, about
your flight…”
brains tend to be much better
at creating such structures,
and this is a typical example.
Netherlands-based architect
SeARCH is behind this rather
marvellous viewing tower in the
middle of the Schovenhorst
Estate’s tree collection in Putten,
Holland. The 40-metre stainless-
steel tower, completed this April,
allows visitors to catch incredible
forest views at several stop-off
points during the ascent.
There are various peep holes,
a rope walk 30 metres high if
you’re feeling particularly brave
and, a few metres above that, a
small theatre platform for actors
or an impromptu Ewok party
– we’re not clear on the details.
But even higher comes the
pièce de résistance: conifers
Large dogs and irate
policeman ramp up the
spectacle for Series 13
When we tuned into the new
series of Top Gear a fortnight
ago, we were worried. Would
the automobile aficionados
finally have run out of ideas?
Would the budget cuts have
reduced the show to James
May playing with a plastic
The stainless-steel tower
allows visitors to catch
incredible forest views
growing atop the tower on
a 17-metre-wide circle. These
trees, and their soil, weigh
an almighty 480 tonnes and
took 36 hours to hoist up
into the canopy – a similar
amount of time it might take
the more timid visitor to be
coaxed past the 10th step.
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Eiffel Tower loved
his new hula-hoop
Porsche in the bath? The answer
was, thankfully, no, and from
what we’ve seen so far, Series 13
is shaping up to be the best yet.
Having already seen a
Bugatti Veyron/McLaren
F1 face-off and Michael
Schumacher impishly popping
his head out of the Stig’s helmet,
this Sunday will see the trio try to
find three decent credit-crunchfriendly
small cars, involving
Notebook
Milan takes
time out from
tailoring
Fashion Week moves
2010’s emphasis from the
boardroom to Côte d’Azur
Wall Street, high-street banks,
Tchibo – nothing is safe from the
clutches of the global economic
crisis, and the Italian catwalks
are no different. But that’s not
to say Milanese designers have
been cutting corners – they’ve
simply been courting the superrich
rather than the high-flying
executives, so the emphasis for
spring/summer 2010 is on
casualwear instead of suits.
And the high street will, of
course, duly follow, so expect
to find more relaxed designs
creeping into your favourite
stores. For instance, Trussardi
1911, designed by y Milan
Vukmirovic, has
taken a luxury
spin on the hippie e
trend, while
Ermenegildo
Zegna, known
for its power
tailoring,
showed a
collection of
featherweight
coats (right)
and light knits.
All you need
now is to find
yourself a
cruise ship and a
Monaco mooring. g.
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Top Gear produces best series yet
them capturing portly canines
and angering law enforcers.
When you throw in Clarkson
charging around in a Mercedes
SL 65 Black and Michael
McIntyre trying a speedy lap, it
all makes those Sunday-evening
blues just a little less biting.
The third episode of Top Gear’s
new series airs on Sunday at
8pm on BBC Two
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