Photograph: Ed Stone/Rex Josh Halliday reports: Festival organiser Michael Eavis has been holding court on a hill overlooking the Pyramid stage, revealing that he's already signed up next year's three headliners.
Speaking at his farmhouse on a hill overlooking the Pyramid stage as the festival drew to a close, Eavis declared himself "absolutely thrilled" and made his ritual declaration that "this really is the best festival we've ever done".
Speaking at his farmhouse on a muddied hill overlooking the Pyramid stage, the Pilton farmer billed the event "a great success again, in spite of the mud and everything" – and revealed he will consider whether to continue running the world's biggest greenfield festival after its 50th anniversary year in 2020.
To our delight, our room overlooked the pyramid.
Besides the cruise on the luxurious 26-suite Oberoi Zahra, the Pleasures of Cleopatra trip includes a stay at the Mena House Oberoi hotel, which overlooks the Great Pyramids, a trip to Abu Simbel to see two 13th-century-B.C. temples built by Ramses II, and visits to ruins in Luxor, Karnak (left), the Valley of the Kings and Dendara.
Among the more unusual New York City structures that Mr. Seinuk helped plan are 450 Lexington Avenue, which rises through an old post office from a base in the subsurface rail yards of Grand Central Terminal; a residential building topped by a pyramid overlooking the United Nations; and the Lipstick Building, an elliptically shaped office tower on Third Avenue at 53rd Street.
Although the novelty of Doha's pyramid-shaped Sheraton hotel overlooking the Gulf had faded in the nearly three decades since it had been built, Mohamed bin Hammam favoured it for his extremely important guests.
Wednesday night at Opaline, a bar and bistro on Avenue A, a filmmaker, Ed DuRante, curates a series of short films shown on a pyramid of video monitors overlooking the dining room (below).
The Step Pyramid of Djoser, second king of the 3rd dynasty, was built within a vast enclosure on a commanding site at Ṣaqqārah, overlooking the city of Memphis.
