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...The municipal stuff, the council flower beds and iron railings around what is now the new entrance, have been cleared away to create a broad, generous public plaza characterised by grey granite, which makes...
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...Housing (so much easier to finance due to presales) is encroaching on the Square Mile in very visible towers like One Bishopsgate Plaza and serviced apartments at The Moorgate....
...Rather he cut a hole in the plaza and created a sunken garden below....
...great architects of spectacle (and one of the first and most intriguing architects I interviewed for the FT 22 years ago), whose stunning designs for malls including Universal Studios CityWalk and Horton Plaza...
...There is the Hancock Tower, a classic office block, which he describes as a “wonderful building designed by IM Pei, it even has its own plaza. But it feels very cold, people don’t feel part of it.”...
...First as the St Gregory, then as a Crowne Plaza, it catered for travellers keen to be close to the edge of the City, before the City got its own hotels and before the edge itself became the destination....
...The intent of the Burrell’s operator, charity Glasgow Life, has been to expand the display space and archives in the museum and to rejig the plan to make a central “plaza”....
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...The towers, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, stood in a bleak plaza, once a byword for urban alienation. They had a certain suaveness to their scale but they were hard to love....
...While a traditional Spanish city would have featured plazas, public spaces of representation and relaxation, here they were replaced by hotel pools....
...It was Wines who coined the descriptions of late modern public art as the “Turd in the plaza” and “Plop art”. “I had a loft on Greene Street in SoHo, 5,000 sq ft for $250 a month,” he says....
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...Usually I avoid the living statues, the Yodas on sticks and gold-sprayed Chaplins, buskers and bin drummers who populate the plaza, but this time there was nothing to avoid. There were three people....
...Conceived as a kind of micro-metropolis and built in concrete blockwork, the visitor is encouraged to wander through a series of alleys, plazas and rooms with carefully aligned vistas and glimpses....
...New York’s Barbizon Plaza Hotel (Laurence Emmons, 1930, now the Trump Parc) employed glass blocks to create a golden glowing crown....
...Who Lux Habitat Kavanagh Building, Buenos Aires, Argentina, $3.5m Where Overlooking Plaza San Martín. What An Art Deco five-bedroom apartment with a terrace and gardens....
...A design for the HQ of a construction company exhibits an even more extreme version of this idea — a huge arcing cut-out eating away the base of the building to create shaded public plaza and route through...
...He designed memorable posters for the Munich Olympics in 1972; he influenced a generation of Op Artists; and his sculptural works, many of them based on a Möbius strip or an endless ribbon, popped up in plazas...
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...The Hudson Yards development is a monumental feat of engineering: $20bn worth of globalised skyscrapers, bland plazas and a mall built over the snaking railway tracks. But it hides the effort away....
...Standing in the bland, grassy plaza, the Kelly is a curious structure. It contains memories of a mausoleum or a church on a Greek island....
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