The design has been licensed from David Giles, a British aeronautical engineer turned ship designer.

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The design by Rachel Read from Colchester in Essex includes a spiral timeline that features plaques naming each British Olympic gold medallist since 1908.

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As the Turks and Caicos doesn't have its own design vernacular, the Palms' developers borrowed from Barbados, and particularly the homes that the British architect and theatrical designer Oliver Messel built there in the 1960s and '70s--one of the partners had grown up in Barbados and lived in a Messel house.

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