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...modern Soviet interlopers. From the immense ruin of Bibi-Khanym Mosque to Shah-I-Zinda's intimate alley of tombs and Tamerlane's resting place at Guri Amir Mausoleum, the city offers an imposing collection of intricately patterned towers, precise arches and azure domes. The Registan?a three-sided plaza of colossal mosaic portals, minarets and medressas (Islamic schools)?was the center of medieval Samarkand and remains the most impressive site (entry $1). In the market near Bibi-Khanym, something of the Silk Road survives as women hawk bread as big as dinner plates, children push barrows of melons...
...audiences, it's a smart introduction to Hong Kong's top auteur-entrepreneur. New Yorkers can get a banquet of Tsui, with retrospectives starting May 25 at Manhattan's Anthology Film Archives and Brooklyn's Plaza Twin, and spiffy prints of his Once Upon a Time in China I and II on view at Manhattan's Film Forum...
Perhaps the most contentious issue of the mayor’s tenure has been development and planning in Boston, ranging from City Hall Plaza to the municipal harbor...
...mayor may have overstepped his executive bounds in granting the BRA $7 million of city funds to redevelop City Hall Plaza...
...brand's stores up to world-class par. Ford, who designed the Gucci stores with the help of William Sofield, enlisted Sofield's help for YSL. The first prototype opened in December in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. The second, shown here, opened at the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California last month. But these stores are still works-in-progress. This fall, Ford's Saint Laurent stores will go head-to-head with the vanity projects of his competitors. The YSL store on Madison Avenue and 71st Street will be the first to feature the finished look...