Word: zeckendorfs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Much of that work was done for William Zeckendorf's Webb and Knapp firm. In 1955 Pei founded his own firm, I. M. Pei and Associates. A great deal of his early work was in city planning, but the two buildings that impressed Walton and Mrs. Kennedy were a weather research station set against the mountains in Boulder, Colo., and the Newhouse Communications Center in Syracuse...
...observed that scheme after scheme to beautify America's topsy-built cities failed because the true client was the real estate entrepreneur rather than the aesthetician. Pei signed on with Manhattan Realtor William Zeckendorf to see if a creative balance could be struck between big deals and good design. The working relationship produced Manhattan's Kips Bay Plaza apartments, Montreal's Place Ville Marie and Denver's Mile High Center. But a decade ago, Pei decided it was time to begin striking out on his own: he became a U.S. citizen...
From Anka to Zeckendorf, some 1,500 of Manhattan's nabobs and thing-amabobs brought their fairest ladies to the $150-a-seat benefit premiere of The Movie Version (see CINEMA). The traffic jam packed 14 blocks of Broadway so solidly that Star Audrey Hepburn had to desert her limousine to trek the last block to the theater. Still, the snafu gave the locust swarm of lensmen a heyday, feasting their flashbulbs on the likes of Jean Kennedy Smith and Mrs. Winston ("CeeZee") Guest, as well as a handful of Hollywood's last duchesses. Joan Fontaine simply glowed...
Merger Made. Looking at the weakening real estate market a few years ago, Murdock figured that it was time to move some of his money into broader areas. "We've learned something from the Zeckendorf experience," he says, referring to the financial woes of Manhattan's William Zeckendorf. When he wanted a bank tenant for one of his new buildings, Murdock went out and formed his own bank. In 1962 he walked into the board meeting of Central Investment Co., a holding company whose directors were feuding, and bought a major interest on the spot. He acquired...
...likes of the King of Nepal, Adlai Stevenson, William Scranton, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands and Groucho Marx. The Savoy also captured the fancy of a darkly handsome British real estate tycoon named Max Rayne. Two years ago he bought one-third of the hotel from William Zeckendorf, later bought the whole thing when Zeckendorf became even harder pressed for cash. Last week representatives of Rayne's London Merchant Securities Ltd. concluded an agreement for a huge and shrewd real estate deal involving the Savoy Plaza...