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• Brighton’s ‘vertical pier’ i360 files for administration

  27-11-2024 19:59
  
  Company blames ‘escalating costs, bad summer weather and the cost-of-living crisis’ for the tourist attraction’s £51m debtIt was meant to be Brighton’s answer to the London Eye. A 162-metre tall “vertical pier” perched on the seafront, the Brighton i360 was designed to pull in hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, offering panoramic views of the Sussex coastline and the bustling seaside city.But eight years after opening, and saddled with £51m
  
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• Hoshyar Nooshin obituary

  27-11-2024 17:56
  My father, Hoshyar Nooshin, who has died aged 90, was a pioneering figure in the field of spatial structures and director of the University of Surrey’s Spatial Structures Research Centre for 28 years.Hoshyar taught at Surrey University from its foundation in 1966, having joined its predecessor, the Battersea College of Technology, as a lecturer in 1963. There he became renowned for his research into computer-aided design and as the originator of Formex algebra, a branch of mathematics that
  
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