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...when Eisner calls, architects listen. They know they will be encouraged to create show-bizzy, show-stopping showplaces that millions of people each year will see and enjoy. At Euro Disney, the Pritzker-prizewinning Frank Gehry designed the nightclub center called Festival Disney, whose plaza is guarded by giant towers of oxidized silver and bronze-colored stainless steel under a star-studded canopy of lights. It's as if the monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey had dressed up and gone out to strut...
...much work as they might have: after almost 40 years as architects, much of that time as world-famous architects, Venturi and Scott Brown have built a few score buildings, many of those within driving distance of their office and none of them very large. Spring after spring, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, a 13-year-old pseudo Nobel, went to other people, sometimes Venturi's inferiors...
...comes vindication -- kudos, prestigious buildings, the works. Last April, Venturi won the Pritzker. In July his impeccable addition to the National Gallery of Art on Trafalgar Square in London was dedicated. And now all of haute Seattle is celebrating his latest creation, the city's fetching new art museum...
Like it or not, Cuban officials are apparently preparing for the inevitable: life after the disappearance of the yearly $5 billion in Soviet aid. Twice within the past year, the heads of giant American hotel chains -- Curtis Carlson of Radisson and Jay Pritzker of Hyatt -- were invited to pay secret visits to the island. Once there, flown in surreptitiously via Mexico City, the Americans were shown scale models of prime beachfront property and asked to select one for future development. Intriguingly, these displays were set up just outside Fidel Castro's office in Havana. Castro was nowhere in sight during...
Trump built his empire on rising land values. New York City was flirting with bankruptcy in 1976, when, at 30, Trump and hotel magnate Jay Pritzker bought the run-down Commodore Hotel at Grand Central Terminal for $10 million. The partners tore down the Commodore and built the Grand Hyatt luxury hotel in its place. The city recovered, and the hotel's value (current estimate: $70 million) soared with it. Borrowing against his stake in the Hyatt, Trump parlayed his first success into more and more prime real estate...