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...Brookline Street in Central Square, currently occupies space that First Cambridge Realty Corporation plans to use for fifty residential units. The corporation—which also owns the property—has the right to remove the club without approval from the city, according to Jai Khalsa, the architect who is designing the apartment complex...
...appears that the chief architect of those rules, FCC chairman Michael Powell, may not stick around for the fight. According to industry sources, the son of Secretary of State Colin Powell has told confidants he'd like to leave by fall, and three of his four top staff members are putting out job feelers. (Powell has denied he's leaving soon.) His most likely replacement, sources say, is either Rebecca Klein, who is head of the Texas public-utility commission and was on the staff of Governor George W. Bush, or FCC commissioner Kevin Martin, who helped the Bush team...
...It’s funny, because the library somehow found a way to pay for new administrative offices that were designed by a world-famous architect,” he said, referring to plans to renovate the Mt. Auburn Street building in the former site of Skewers and the Harvard Provision Company. “But at the same time they’re crying poverty when we ask for more reserves and other things that cost a tiny amount of money...
Deng Xiaoping, the architect of the "one country, two systems" formula that defines Hong Kong's relationship with China, once said: "With a good system, even evil men cannot do evil. Without a good system, even good men cannot do good but may be forced to do evil." This is the problem with the Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution. Although it features safeguards to protect the territory's autonomy, the Basic Law falls woefully short in many critical areas. Most important, the system of government is wholly undemocratic...
...project had initially come under attack from Cambridge residents both for its architecture and for replacing retail space. The original design, by famous architect Hans Hollein, was rejected by the Cambridge Historical Commission in April 2001. The new design, by Boston firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates, “fits the space much better,” Verba said...