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...Design A bullish developer and an architect plan a pseudo city and the world's tallest building within the heart of Manhattan...
...Urban Planning Commission and a key player in preparations for the 2008 Olympics, Huang is taking on the country's stickiest development problems-migration, pollution, corruption-and its deepest ambitions: to be modern, prosperous and globally respected. Huang, 40, is a new kind of bureaucrat. The English-speaking architect, trained in Belgium, Germany and China, is not a Communist Party member. She is striving "to bring fresh air" to China's musty, Soviet-style planning dogmas, which have left much of the capital grim, dusty and clogged with traffic. Huang argues for more attention to how humans actually live, what...
...architect of Hyundai's rise is Chung, who was named chairman in 1998. Although his father Chung Ju Yung founded Hyundai Motor in 1967, it was clear that the son would not get a free ride. Shortly before his appointment, the Korean economy was slammed by the 1997 Asian financial crisis and Hyundai was forced to lay off 25% of its staff. Complicating matters, Hyundai agreed in 1998 to acquire South Korean rival Kia Motors, which had to be assimilated. Chung had little experience with the automotive industry. He had spent most of his career managing a smorgasbord of affiliates...
...tree-house designs of Bremen, Germany-based Baumraum architect Andreas Wenning are more modest in scale, but lean toward the avant garde (www.baum raum.de). A triangular construction, for example, suspended on steel ropes more than 8 m above ground between two beeches, is designed to resemble a ship. The one-room, 7-sq-m dwelling, on the grounds of a livery stable near Bremen, serves as the owner's weekend retreat. It boasts a glass-topped lookout, terrace and hatch-door entry, as well as heating and electricity. So if you have the urge to nest, look...
This is not the Paul Wolfowitz the world is used to seeing. On a lush hillside in Rwanda last week, Wolfowitz - the über-hawk, the architect of the Iraq war, the embodiment of everything that the Bush Administration's critics find detestable about U.S. foreign policy - was talking about coffee. Standing beside tables of drying coffee under the beating sun, Wolfowitz, just two weeks into his new role as president of the World Bank, picked up a bean and asked a worker how he could tell that it was a good one. It's the color, the man said...