Word: manhattanization
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...area around the World Trade Center, he flew from his home in Berlin to visit the site. He descended into "the bathtub," the vast concrete basin in which the foundations of both towers once rested. As the street-level sounds of the city fell away, the primeval depths of Manhattan filled his view. "At that bedrock level you can see the indelible traces of the towers," says Libeskind. "These were walls that had withstood the trauma of the attack. I thought to myself, There is something very significant here--the voice of the site itself...
...risks faced by these new stores have never been greater. Pressure is coming from the economy: rents on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue are hitting $1,200 per sq. ft. (your local supermarket probably pays about a hundredth of that). Moreover, such design-conscious chains as Target and Topshop have proved that they can deliver style smarts at a lower price. Indeed, luxury shoppers are now as likely to be found in Costco or Tesco as they are in Chanel. Those shoppers who traded up to luxury brands in the booming '90s fell away when the market...
Then Prada blew the lid off the corporate image with Koolhaas' radical design for its $40 million boite in Manhattan's SoHo. The SoHo store jarred retailers, making some rethink the whole concept of what a store has to deliver. The Koolhaas touch includes a stadium-stepped, two-story arc display for shoes that integrates the shopper into the merchandise; technology is melded to the fitting rooms. Strictly speaking, it's not all that practical, but Koolhaas' design made the store a tourist stop. And that's part of the mission. "This spate of very cool, high-design boutiques...
...test this thesis, I persuaded Stella McCartney, fashion designer and daughter of Sir Paul McCartney, to let me work as a salesperson in her Manhattan store for a day. I chose Stella for several reasons, most of which have to do with the fact that I live a quarter-mile from her store. But apparently Stella has really nice clothes, nearly all of which cost more than $40, my official price ceiling for any article of clothing...
...agents believe even one or two Iraqi agents could do a lot of damage. Small amounts of chemical or biological agents could be secreted in diplomatic pouches dispatched to the Iraqi UN mission, located across the street from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's residence in Manhattan, to the Iraqi interest section in Washington's ritzy Kalorama Triangle or smuggled across the US-Canadian border...