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...Native American culture ever assembled: the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, which opens this week in New York City. The museum is housed in the Beaux Arts splendor of the 1907 Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, which has been elegantly restored and renovated by Ehrenkrantz & Eckstut Architects. Its permanent collection boasts the million-plus artifacts collected by George Gustav Heye, a turn-of-the-century New York City banker who bought out Indian communities much the way William Randolph Hearst emptied Spanish monasteries. One section of the museum, called "Creation's Journey," displays such Heye treasures...
Battery Park City. Pedestrian amenities were taken seriously in this New York City project. Housing and shops and offices and parks neatly dovetail. Various architects designed smallish high-rises under the supervision of planners Alexander Cooper and Stanton Eckstut. Right out of a dead zone -- landfill on the southwestern tip of Manhattan -- something quite like a piece of real city is emerging...
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