Word: diller
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Even if Rockwell's designs never enter the architectural canon, he has fans in unusual places. He has collaborated with Diller + Scofidio, the most cerebral, academic architectural studio of the moment. (It has just beat out several big-name firms in a competition to design the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.) Rockwell invited Diller + Scofidio to work on a project that was never built, but the two firms got on so well that they worked together on building a viewing platform at ground zero in New York City...
...Most people don't understand our involvement with David," says Liz Diller, one of the partners, who's a professor of architectural design at Princeton. "But I was stunned by how similar our thinking was, even though the results are so different. He's a thinker--a guy who can analyze things...
...Bronfmans' Seagram Co. and its Universal movie studio, theme parks and music group for $34 billion in stock. Last year, in the U.S. alone, he agreed to buy book publisher Houghton Mifflin, music website mp3.com a 10% stake in the EchoStar satellite service, and the entertainment assets of Barry Diller's USA Networks for a total of $14.4 billion...
...into a smaller and, above all, clearer company," says Marc Touati, chief economist for Natexis-Banques Populaires in Paris. "That will involve straightening out the books so investors can see exactly where things stand." It might also mean setting Vivendi's U.S. assets loose, possibly into the hands of Diller, who has already profited mightily in dealmaking with Messier and Bronfman...
...every film, TV show, song, book and video game the creatives could muster, Vivendi Universal could deliver high-octane growth. To bolster that vision, Messier spent 2001 bulking up with acquisitions: publisher Houghton Mifflin ($2.2 billion), the music website MP3.com ($372 million), the TV and film assets of Barry Diller's USA Networks ($10.3 billion) and a 10% stake in the EchoStar satellite TV service ($1.5 billion). He created a joint headquarters in New York City and moved there in part to reassure U.S. investors that the company would look and feel like an American media firm...