Word: designer
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...matter here that Pasquarelli had come to architecture from investment banking and that Coren had a degree in business and marketing?not backgrounds that dispose you to think of philosophy as a hot career path. "We didn't want to do anything that was not exciting in terms of design," Coren says. "But at the same time, we believed in running a successful business. That was a central idea that brought us together...
...quick calculation," says Pasquarelli. "Five dollars admission per museumgoer plus an average of two beers plus maybe a hot dog or a hamburger times 10 weekends. We had generated somewhere between half a million and a million dollars in revenue for the museum." Meanwhile, the firm's design fee had been only $10,000, with a $50,000 construction budget. "That really made us think about how we could tie our design fees to the success of our projects," he says...
...partners first proposed the unusual arrangement, they knew they were risking more than their money. They were putting into play their reputation among other architects. "A lot of them would say, 'That's a sellout. You're in bed with the developers, and you're losing your design freedom,'" he says. (Coren jumps in, adding, "They have said that.") But Pasquarelli insists that because they had sunk their own money in the project and stood to gain only if the apartments sold, they won the confidence of their developer partner Brown. They were able to convince him that if they...
...passionate about stones," says German-born Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, co-president and design director of Chopard, the Geneva-based fine-jewelry brand. "Real rocks," she insists...
...completely sure why, but we know that this happens.”Noah Selsby ’95, client technology advisor for FAS IT, blames the wireless “problem areas” on areas of “extreme traffic” rather than poor design. But in Kroll’s opinion, blame for this traffic should primarily be placed on Harvard, which apparently doesn’t own enough network addresses for so many students at a given time. “My suggestion is that Harvard try to buy some from...