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...Majerus barely had time to enjoy his fame. He studied at the Stuttgart Academy in the early 1990s and, after barely a decade as a working artist, began to establish a reputation along with Franz Ackermann, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger and a rising generation of young iconoclasts. Majerus made waves by painting the entire façade of the Italian pavilion at the 1999 Venice Biennale with a pastiche of famous artworks. In 2002 he covered Berlin's famed Brandenburg Gate with a digital rendering of a graffiti-blighted East Berlin housing block...
Catering to premium-class travelers is not new. Lufthansa, Swiss, KLM, Alitalia and others have flown smaller aircraft for that purpose on trade routes such as Stuttgart to Detroit. What's new is the leap by private investors into the transatlantic market. They are raising capital, buying planes and negotiating for airport slots--and it's starting to look like a trend. L'Avion began service between Paris and New York City on Jan. 3; Silverjet launched its single route between New York and London...
...both anchored Harvard’s presence in Allston and propelled development forward thus far.Among the first buildings set for the University’s 241 acres is a massive 500,000 square foot science complex to be designed by Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner—a Stuttgart-based architectural firm with environmentally-friendly credentials—which will house the Stem Cell Institute and the newly created Harvard Institute for Biological Engineering.“[The current plan] definitely reflects [Summers’] priorities,” says Harvard’s chief Allston planner, Kathy...
...tradition. It’s a feeling of history,” said task force member Millie H. McLaughlin. “We would like to see some traditional elements.” “Time and history are relative things,’ responded the architect, a Stuttgart, Germany, native. “The Italians would have a totally different conception of tradition.” But Behnisch acknowledged the importance of continuity, arguing for the construction of smaller buildings with varied sizes to maintain the atmosphere of the Cambridge campus. In order to begin construction in Allston...
Mercedes and its parent, DaimlerChrysler, have delivered an ultimatum to Smart, which is based near Stuttgart but whose cars are manufactured in France: Break even by 2007 or else. The roadster and the SUV have been axed, as have one-third the employees. Ulrich Walker, Smart's president, says the firm has reduced fixed costs 26% and is "on the right track toward an economically sound future." Some financial analysts are urging Daimler not to wait until 2007, but Dieter Zetsche, the newly appointed chief executive, says that "it's only fair to give them the time to deliver...