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There are a number of shops, including a pub, along the Brockenhurst Road (A330) and Ascot railway station is found on the northern edge of the village. St. Francis Roman Catholic Primary School in South Ascot is considered one of the best in the borough. The church of All Souls was built in 1896–97. The architect was John Loughborough Pearson.
The centrepiece of Ascot's year is held in June: Royal Ascot is arguably the world's most famous race meeting, dating back to 1711. The British royal family attend the meeting, arriving each day in a procession of horse-drawn carriages from Windsor Castle through Windsor Great Park and the village of Cheapside. It is a major event in the ...
Cheapside is centred 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of the centre of Ascot, one of Europe's main venues in horse racing. East is the southern part of Windsor Great Park which has denser pockets of tall trees; Sunninghill has remains of its forest throughout — Sunninghill Park was part of Windsor Forest until King Charles I sold it to Thomas Carey in ...
Ascot Sound Studios was a recording studio built by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1970, on the grounds of Tittenhurst Park. [ 1 ] Lennon built the studio, which featured eight recording tracks on one-inch open-reel tape and a sixteen-channel mixing console , so that he and Ono could record without the inconvenience of having to book studio time ...
VIA 57 West (marketed as VIΛ 57WEST) is a residential building at 625 West 57th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The pyramid shaped tower block or "tetrahedron", designed by the Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), rises 467 ft (142 m) and is 35-stories tall.
One57 (157 West 57th Street) Extell Development Company: Christian de Portzamparc: 2009 2014 1,005 feet (306 m) 432 Park Avenue: CIM Group and Harry B. Macklowe: Rafael Viñoly: 2011 2015 1,397 feet (426 m) 252 East 57th Street: World Wide Group and Rose Associates, Inc. Roger Duffy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: 2013 2016 712 feet (217 m) 111 ...
The Cornelius Vanderbilt II House was a large mansion built in 1883 at 1 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City. It occupied the frontage along the west side of Fifth Avenue from West 57th Street up to West 58th Street at Grand Army Plaza. The home was sold in 1926 and demolished to make way for the Bergdorf Goodman Building.
One57, formerly known as Carnegie 57, is a 75-story, 1,005 ft (306 m) supertall skyscraper at 157 West 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.