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HSBC Building (Hong Kong) - Wikipedia  HSBC Main Building is a headquarters building of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking ... Type, Commercial offices .... The new building was designed by the British architect Norman, Lord Foster and civil & structural ... more likely to prosper than those who do not (water is strongly associated with wealth in feng shui).
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Fengshui as a narrative of localisation: case studies of contemporary ...  Chinese fengshui evolved from a classical tradition aimed at achieving harmony ... cultural localisation in building design to Introduction 22 help set the building apart ..... This narrative is then tested via three case studies: Chapter 5: Case study ...... building (1985) designed by Norman Foster, the Bank of China tower (1990)...
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Game Show NewsNet  Dec 28, 2005 ... Rex bets level again with this: with help from feng shui, Norman Foster reinvented the office tower with a 1980s building in this then-colony.
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Norman Foster's Hong Kong HSBC headquarters tore up the rule ...  May 28, 2015 ... Norman Foster delivered, taking the 1960s dream of a plug-in, prefab city and making it real. ... the best bank building in the world  an office tower that would have to be ... as well as reinventing the slab of stacked floor-plates as a series of .... Better safe than sorry, advised HSBC's feng shui masters, who...
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Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank HQ | Foster + Partners  Conceived during a sensitive period in the former colony's history, the brief for the Hongkong and Shanghai ... In doing so it virtually reinvented the office tower.
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The Death and Life of an Empowerment Zone - CommonWealth ...  Jan 1, 1998 ... The funds that did come through were primarily not for education, job training, ... Jack Kemp introduced enterprise-zone legislation in 1980, and President Reagan talked it up. ... low-cost method of encouraging business to invest in urban areas. ... which made Harlem-South Bronx a shoo-in for one EZ slot.
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When Builders Fall Short With 'Iconic' Properties - WSJ  Nov 22, 2008 ... Here are some buildings that have acquired icon status -- and several ... than itself -- like the White House, the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building. ... the Guggenheim "to do for Bilbao what the Sydney Opera House did for Australia. ... and 100 years from now, all those iconic wannabes will resemble a...
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Fraiser Crane's Elliott Bay Towers Floorplan, Now ... - Curbed Seattle  Mar 13, 2013 ... Ever wanted to recreate the apartments from your favorite TV show? First of all ... Fraiser Crane's Elliott Bay Towers Floorplan, Now In Poster Form ... You Can Now Model Your Home After Your Favorite TV Shows [BuzzFeed]
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Feng Shui essentials; Life is like we arrange it. Fengshui, Feng Shui ...  An architect should be a healer so that he can give a space power. .... In the worst, they point to the door or the window of your sleeping-room. .... imperiled, can be protected with a "Bagua-Mirror", which is suspend above these doors. .... a big ball, a sun dial, a statue, a circular flower bed or a spiral from herbs can be used.]
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The Many Suites of the Late Rich Recluse Howard Hughes - Curbed  Oct 16, 2012 ... Photos: Sunset Tower Hotel Inset: Hughes in happier times, by Slim Aarons ... later in life, the billionaire heir Howard Hughes had a penchant for hotel living... ... entire top floornow split into two penthousesand the 14th floor as well. ... for good, decamping to a penthouse at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas.
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Travel guide: Hong Kong - Arcspace  Aug 18, 2014 ... The Bank of China Tower was the tallest in the city and throughout Asia from 1989 to 1992 and the first building outside of the USA to be more than 1,000 feet tall. ... on the south and the side entrance several floors up in the north. ... of the former British crown colony to China in 1997, the building served as...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Japan - WSJ  May 27, 2010 ... He would go on to design several iconic American buildingsfrom the 1936 ... to the mid-1600s, ukiyo-e or "pictures of the floating world" include images of ... Wright's Imperial Hotel may be gone from Tokyo, but its successor does ... It is full of genuine Wright details, from the Art Deco furniture to the light...
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Noted alum to design new SOM campus - Yale Daily News  Sep 18, 2007 ... Foster  who also designed the Hearst Tower in New York City, the ... the Millennium Bridge in London  is famous for his sophisticated, modern style of architecture. ... Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen designed Ingalls Rink, ... Bloomer said he has not yet seen the plans for the new project but is...
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IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL AT LENOX DESPITE WHITE HOUSE'S ...  Oct 11, 1981 ... POMONA EVER since Nancy Reagan, the First Lady, announced that Lenox China Inc. would be creating a dinner service of 220 place settings for the White House, ... chosen by Mrs. Reagan has a latticework of gold leaf over two red ... President and Mrs. Reagan have raised through private donations,...
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I. M. Pei - Wikipedia  Ieoh Ming Pei, FAIA, RIBA (born April 26, 1917), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a ... The city's global architectural flavors had a profound influence on Pei, from the .... Vlastimil Koubek was the architect for the East Building (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, ... The project differed from Pei's earlier urban work; it would rest in an open...
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Empire State Building dedicated - May 01, 1931 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Empire State Building dedicated on May 01, 1931. ... Hoover's gesture, of course, was symbolic; while the president remained in Washington, ... In 1972, the Empire State Building lost its title as world's tallest building to New .... in Brooklyn and worked as a filing clerk and blacksmith's assistant before.
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Reagan's Honor - tribunedigital-sunsentinel  Newest Federal Building Named For Former President And His Fight For Freedom, U.s. Leadership. May 6, 1998|Hearst News Service ... the newest and second-largest federal building to the former chief executive. ... Ronald Reagan always thought ``America's greatest monuments are the American people,'' she said.
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I.M. PEI REDISCOVERS CHINA - NYTimes.com  Jan 23, 1983 ... The architect I.M. Pei, creator of the East Building of the National ... and so when the Government of China invited him to design such a building in 1978, he did not say no. He returned to China - where he had been born in 1917 - and ... The building is called Xiangshan (meaning ''Fragrant Hill'') Hotel, and...
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Seven Wonders of the Modern World: The CN Tower  The CN Tower when it was finished in 1976 was the tallest freestanding structure in the world. ... In the 1960's the city of Toronto, Canada, was in a building boom. ... It was a simple, open, steel tower without any habitable space and needed the ... Originally its 36 pieces were to be put into place by a crane, but when a...
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Ronnie and Nancy: Part I | Vanity Fair  Ronnie told funny stories, and some not so funny, about Iran and Iraq, for example. ... Over the years, the Reagans and their friends almost came to resemble a court, .... They honeymooned at the Frank Lloyd Wrightinspired Arizona Biltmore in ..... who owned the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim and the syndication rights to...
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The Near-Impossible Challenge of Designing the 9/11 Museum ...  May 14, 2014 ... It hangs in the new museum's concourse lobby. ... They can now be seen through the museum's glass atrium. .... The museum began to take shape eight years ago in a generic office on the 20th floor of One Liberty Plaza. ... These posed a dilemma: Experts like Billie Pivnick, a clinical psychologist who...