Word: projects
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...local arguments over how, if at all, the site should be preserved. A private nonprofit foundation raised $1.3 million to create the museum, and Dallas County, which owns the building, built a reception area with a $2.2 million bond issue. The Kennedy family, which was known to oppose the project, was not consulted on the plans...
...building, but also its relation to neighboring buildings. The architects seem to have fulfilled Harvard's wish of unifying the museums. One of the building's designers, Charles Gwathmey, who will be discussing his firm's work at the Fogg next Thursday, said last week that the project "imaged [the museums] into a kind of architectural assemblage that would present the Fogg as an institution of parts but all interconnected." Accordingly, the plans demonstrate how the architects integrated old and new into a cohesive unit, both structurally and aesthetically...
...State St. office building, Cox said, "I don't know enough about it to say whether the question arises with respect to that or not," adding, "I expect to learn." That building aroused controversy because Senate President William M. Bulger (D-South Boston) may have illegally aided the project, to which his business partner was a consultant...
...deal, which is expected to be approved by the Italian government, was a coup for the U.S. firm. AT&T triumphed over a homegrown bid from Fiat, as well as proposals from French, West German and Swedish competitors. The Italian project will help give AT&T a strong foothold in the fast-growing European telecommunications market. Italtel, for its part, hopes to parlay its new association into expanded phone-equipment exports...
...sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Successful Farming magazine. The program's name: Barn Again! The sponsors offer farmers advice on refurbishing barns, and have presented prizes of up to $1,000 for the best examples. "But they're not just stage sets," says Barn Again! project director Mary Humstone. "They have to have a living, practical...