It was his last full day in office and he spent the morning and early afternoon with Northern Ireland's then First Minister Ian Paisley on the green, grassy slopes of the Boyne at the new museum that commemorates the 1690 Battle.

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Even the green spaces he's designed for leading boutique hoteliers Ian Schrager's Delano in Miami, Gramercy Park in New York, the Mondrian in Los Angeles and London's St.

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