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...plan does have a certain breathtaking screwball grandeur, like some '30s movie written by Bertolt Brecht and directed by Preston Sturges. Donald Trump, the young multimillionaire real estate developer, owns 100 vacant acres of Hudson River waterfront just northwest of midtown Manhattan, a parcel that he characteristically calls "the greatest piece of urban land in America--the greatest piece of land in the world." One hundred acres! In one spot in Manhattan! At the center of that plot, the developer announced last week, he intends to put up the world's tallest building, an office and apartment tower shooting...
DIED. Sam Spiegel, 84, independent Hollywood producer of the fast-talking, cigar-chomping mold, whose grand-scale, big-budget pictures of the 1950s and '60s, notably The African Queen (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), won 23 Academy Awards, including three for best picture; in St. Martin, West Indies. Spiegel was a perfectionist who relentlessly drove his writers, directors and actors, but he commanded, or inveigled, loyalty: many who angrily quit his far-flung film sets at night were persuaded by morning to stay on. Born in what...
...Waterfront Chaim Estulin's article [May 2] alleges that for over a century Hong Kong has "misused its greatest asset," Victoria Harbour, and that little has been done by the government to protect it. This is not true. Land reclaimed from the harbor over the years has contributed greatly to Hong Kong's economic development and its status as an international financial center. Nonetheless, the government recognizes that Victoria Harbour is a special public asset, and it shares the public's aspirations to preserve it. In May 2004, the broadly representative Harbour-front Enhancement Committee was established to advise...
Andrew Lynn, MSG’s vice president of development, says that when he hired Krieger, he gave the professor a specific charge: to design a high-density residential development that would provide access to the waterfront and maximize open space...
Krieger’s impressive resume includes several high-profile design projects, including a plan to revitalize the Anacostia waterfront in Washington...