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...unusual for developers to throw up buildings without tenants locked in, but Broadgate Tower and the adjoining 201 Bishopsgate building are not your average speculative office project. This one is remarkable for its scope and ambition. When the tower opens for business next year plum in the middle of London's financial district, the 35-story office property with 1,200 sq m of rentable space per floor will dwarf virtually all of its nearest neighbors. A decade in development and costing more than $570 million, Broadgate Tower and its matched 13-story Bishopsgate building come with all the conveniences...
...Center for the Intrepid, a dazzling tower of technology built for U.S. combat casualties, would be the envy of any of the 1,000 amputees and burn victims from Iraq and Afghanistan wars - among whom I recovered from battle wounds as an embedded reporter in Baghdad three years ago. The exercise equipment we had at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington was old, the therapy wards and gyms overcrowded. There was no "flowrider" to help rebuild abdominal muscles in a water slide, nor laser gun studio to regain digital function by firing M4 replicas against video images. We made...
...penthouse suite in San Francisco's posh Fairmont Hotel & Tower has served oil sheiks, Hollywood stars and every U.S. President since Eisenhower. Now it has a new distinction: renting for $20,000 a night during the Christmas season, the suite has become the world's most expensive hotel accommodation...
...live here can't leave - and those who don't would never consider coming," says Hem's Socialist Mayer Francis Vercamer, once a resident of the Haut Champs slums. To effect that change, Vercamer has launched a $200 million project to revolutionize the area by razing larger, dehumanizing tower blocks and replacing them with hundreds of smaller apartment units and individual homes; refurbishing existing housing with the input and advice of their occupants; and creating commercial hubs in the hope of attracting businesses and new jobs...
...sure there are some Harvard students who make it through four years without becoming pretentious ivory tower liberals like the rest of us. But you don’t tend to meet those people writing for The Crimson...