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...more hairy is designing a high-rise--in the heart of Manhattan, no less--that is to be the U.S. headquarters for LVMH, the fashion, champagne and other image-heavy-goods conglomerate. Ugly just won't do. But Christian de Portzamparc, the Pritzker-prizewinning French architect, has created a tower with elan. His 23-story building has a kinky, faceted, overlapping-glass facade, like a whimsical piece of origami, which nevertheless abides by all the city's fiddly zoning laws. The mixture of transparent and opalescent glass and the etched patterns on the windows enhance the prismatic effect, and will...
...Tower offers the best river views on campus...
...destroying phones. There's a guy serving a year in jail in England for refusing to shut up, shut up, SHUT UP for just a few minutes please...during a flight from Madrid to Manchester. Authorities there claimed his mobile's emissions constituted a safety hazard, interfering with air-tower-to-pilot communications. But we know better, don't we? They threw him in the slammer for sweet revenge...
...clothes ripped away by enthusiasts as she incautiously body-surfed the pit. From the stage, Fred Durst, singer for the aggressively untalented rap-metal band Limp Bizkit, made it explicit: he instructed the audience to "start some s___." Which some of the audience obediently did, scaling the sound tower and ripping away the plywood boards protecting electronic equipment...
Summer work atop the 140-ft. tower is proceeding on schedule. The base steel for the tower has been installed, and the workers will spend three days in late August hoisting pieces of the tower roof into place...