A developer with designs on boosting inner cities
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After trading in his architect's hat for a developer's hard hat, Kirk Sykes saw a five-year dream become reality when he opened Hampton Inn &amp; Suites at Boston's Crosstown Center in July. A month later, Sykes embarked on a new journey, starting the New Boston Urban Strategies America Fund to transform land and economics in urban areas. He spoke with ...
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Costas Kondylis is a successful architect who also happens to be the designer of some of New York Cityâs most polarizing projects.
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Rouse Co., the real estate developer that transformed America&#39;s suburban landscape by creating the indoor shopping mall and self-contained communities far from city centers
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Designer James Carpenter understands the poetics of light and material, working with architects to enhance public places. Fourth in a series profiling this year's MacArthur 'genius award' winners. By Kari Lynn Dean.
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A California software developer turns instant message windows into a platform for video games.
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Pierre-Alain Joye takes a look at building Cairo (a vector-based graphics library for PHP) on a Windows system.    While trying to get the cairo (and pimp) PHP binding ready to be released, I finally sit down and port Wez build cscript to cairo. It still needs some cleanup, a nice summary message but it works already. I tested it with Visual C++ Express Edition but it should work with other versions as well.   My next goal is to add the tests (nmake tests) and fix the nmake instal    He describes the process he went through to try to get things up and running, but is still having a few issues and has required a few tweaks to get it working. He also links to two resources: a ZIP of the development libraries and a ZIP ready to use package.
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By David Bracken, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 16--FUQUAY-VARINA -- Developer Bill Akins doesn't mind being one of the first to bet on downtown Fuquay-Varina's re-emergence; he just hopes to eventually have some company.
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By Fraidy Reiss, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Feb. 18--JACKSON -- Don't give it all to a developer.
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Donald Norman, author of "The Design of Everday Things," analyzes the automatic nature of the new Times building.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 13--RALEIGH -- Developer John Kane got the go-ahead from Raleigh planners Tuesday to extend his popular North Hills across Six Forks Road.
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BEING environmentally-conscious is no longer an option for developers.  According to Real Estate and Housing Developers Association (Rehda) president Ng Seing Liang, it's a must if developers want to maintain a competitive edge.
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Corporate housing can be a boon for developers during a buildingâs transition from rental to condominium or for condominium investors facing a sluggish market.
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Life & style: Blow for London as new generation designer makes 'natural progression' to New York
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An entrepreneur beats back depression and begins to develop a new product.
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The man who helped reinvent New York's vibrant Soho and Florida's South Beach had a similar bold vision for Boston's Summer Street neighborhood. But that was a year ago.
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By Erik Lacayo, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 16--Los Angeles entrepreneur Quay Hays wants to build a new city in Kings County.   And because of it, people constantly ask him whether he has ever had his head examined.
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In one of this city's relatively posh neighborhoods, there is a compound full of specialists.