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That even goes for where you sit. Amazon offices are scattered across Seattle: the flagship Art Deco Pacific Medical Center, the Pike Street skyscraper, the original Columbia building and so on. Stunning mountain-flanked views of Lake Washington and Puget Sound are the only luxury the spartan corporate aesthetic allows...
You have to give Douglas Durst credit for building a very interesting skyscraper [HEROES FOR THE PLANET, Oct. 18]. If builders can construct more of these environmentally friendly buildings, it would reduce the energy used in cities, thus saving our natural resources. ADAM J. TREXLER Columbia, Ill.
I have come to New York to see if Trump, the umpteenth person to form a presidential exploratory committee this year, is as big a jerk as he sometimes seems to be. Not that being a jerk automatically disqualifies a person from becoming a candidate these days: anyone with airfare...
He couldn't do all he wanted to. Financial considerations contributed to cutbacks in the number of solar panels and non-polluting fuel-cell power generators. Nonetheless, Durst has drawn a nod from environmental advocates. "This is a good first effort," says Joseph Romm, executive director of the Center for...
The most heartening and invigorating thing about Foster's design sense is its clarity, the insistence that the poetics of a building must grow out of its legible and fully expressed structure. Foster has never been even faintly tempted by the clutter of secondhand allusion and quotation that infested so...