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...payroll of about 70 people, SHoP Architects doesn't quite qualify as a small firm. All the same, it doesn't compare to design-world immensities like Norman Foster's sprawling operation in London or just about any branch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. But last summer, this medium-size Manhattan-based company won a very big project?the new headquarters for Google, the virtual-world behemoth based in Mountain View, Calif...
...turned out to be an idea that worked for them. Their new offices in lower Manhattan are stuffed with models for real projects, not propositions?numerous condos, two retail commissions in Beijing, the master plan for an entire city in India, a classroom building at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and a partnership with the firm of eminent British architect Richard Rogers and landscape designer Ken Smith to weave esplanades, greenery and pavilions into a two-mile (3 km) stretch of waterfront along Manhattan's Lower East Side...
Nike may have perfected it, but celebrity sponsorship was the ticket to the top for both Adidas and the smaller Puma. Jets quarterback Joe Namath paraded around Manhattan in the 1970s in his swanky white Puma sneakers, and fans bought hundreds of thousands of pairs. Namath had an unprecedented deal: $25,000 a year, plus 25˘ for each shoe sold. Quaint, isn't it? The competition for star endorsers would define the battle for sporting-goods supremacy. By the time soccer star Beckham signed on in 2007, Adidas committed to a lifetime deal reportedly worth more than $600 million. Says...
It’s a typical evening in Manhattan, and Zoe Kravitz decides to go for a walk. Innocent enough, right? Wrong. In the course of one night, Kravitz is depicted necking with strange boys on the street, smoking what may or may not be PCP in the park while wearing hoop earrings, and rolling on club drugs in—where else?—da club. Kravitz’s collective exploits work towards director Phillip Andelman’s mission to delineate the parallel between drug abuse and bad relationships that is at the very core...
...ethically wayward but not necessarily criminal companies into agreeing to unfairly large settlements by threatening CEOs with prolonged legal battles. (Spitzer extracted at least $5 billion in penalties from financial firms, according to Masters.) In December 2005, former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead, who was then chairing the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., alleged that Spitzer tried to bully him after Whitehead wrote a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed criticizing the attorney general's zealotry: "I will be coming after you," Spitzer allegedly told Whitehead, who said he immediately took notes of the conversation. "You will pay dearly for what...