Clewes
Clewes is a surname. Notable people with the surname: * Howard Clewes (1912–1988), British screenwriter and novelist *Peter Clewes Peter Clewes is a Canadian architect and the principal of the Toronto-based firm architectsAlliance. He has been one of the leading architects in the condo boom that has reshaped Toronto in the first decade of the 21st century. His projects incl ..., Canadian architect See also * Clews (other) * Lewes (surname) {{Short pages monitor ...
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Peter Clewes
Peter Clewes is a Canadian architect and the principal of the Toronto-based firm architectsAlliance. He has been one of the leading architects in the condo boom that has reshaped Toronto in the first decade of the 21st century. His projects include SP!RE, Casa Condominio Residenza, Murano, Burano, X Condominium, 20 Niagara, Ideal Lofts, and MoZo. He most often works for Howard Cohen of Context Developments. Biography Clewes designed buildings can be described as neomodern. He is notable for creating unadorned towers with large expanses of glass and well thought out interior layouts. He is a critic of neo-historical and postmodern structures, arguing there is no reason to force tiny windows and aged styles when modern technology can create expansive floor to ceiling windows. He has argued forcefully against contextualism, and has not employed it for projects such as his Distillery District designs. He told ''The Globe and Mail'' "We need to create buildings of our time. Ar ...
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Howard Clewes
Howard Clewes (27 October 1912 – 29 January 1988) was an English screenwriter and novelist. He wrote for eight films between 1951 and 1974. He also wrote twenty action novels from 1938 to 1979.Renata Clewes obituary; London Independent 10 August 2009. He was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Screenplay in 1960 for ''The Day They Robbed the Bank of England''. He was born in York, England. In 1946, he married Renata Faccincani della Torre, a wartime resistance fighter. She was an active (uncredited) editor in his literary and screenwriting projects. Filmography * '' Green Grow the Rushes'' (1951), based on his 1949 novel of the same name * ''The Long Memory'' (1953), based on his 1951 novel of the same name * ''The Steel Bayonet'' (1957) * '' The One That Got Away'' (1957) * ''The Day They Robbed the Bank of England'' (1960) * '' Up from the Beach'' (1965) * ''That Man in Istanbul'' (1965) * ''The Three Musketeers'' (1974) Novels * ''Sailor Comes Home'' (1938) * ''Dead Gr ...
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Clews (other)
Clews or CLEWS may refer to: * Clew, a part of a sail * Clews (duo), an Australian pop music duo * Clews (surname), a list of people with the surname * Clews Competition Motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer * Climate, Land, Energy and Water Strategies (or Systems), developed for the Rio+20 conference and now assisting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) process See also * Clewes Clewes is a surname. Notable people with the surname: * Howard Clewes (1912–1988), British screenwriter and novelist *Peter Clewes Peter Clewes is a Canadian architect and the principal of the Toronto-based firm architectsAlliance. He has bee ...