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...side. In the 1990s, he discovered real estate, rehabbing and selling a few foreclosed duplexes, then developing town houses and branching into condo conversions as the market went nuts. He soon built a statewide empire with 300 employees, including a staff priest who blessed his projects. He bought a waterfront mansion in Coral Gables, a fleet of classic cars, a Ferretti yacht, huge collections of fine wine, Cuban art and luxury watches. Just last year he spent $80,000 on an antique billiard table...
They opened the faucets Thursday for The New York City Waterfalls, the industrial-strength art project by Olafur Eliasson at four locations along the city's eastern waterfront (see pictures at the Looking Around blog here). Each of them consists of a steel scaffolding between 90 and 120 ft. high, about 27 to 37 meters. River water is pumped to the top and spills back down in a wide cascade that will flow daily...
...Inevitably The Waterfalls will be compared to The Gates, the magical Christo and Jeanne-Claude project that filled Central Park three years ago with hundreds of flowing curtains suspended from goal post supports. Both projects put aggressively human devices into a semi-natural setting - a city park, a city waterfront - and invite you to make of that what you will. But I think there will be less opportunity to commune with Eliasson's cascades, which are located mostly in places it's not that easy to reach by foot or bicycle, than there was with the easily accessed Gates, which...
...million facility was set up by the Fundação Oriente (Orient Foundation) - a Portuguese cultural organization established in the former colony of Macau in 1988 - and showcases a vast array of Asian artifacts on five floors in a magnificent Art Deco building along the Lisbon waterfront at Alcãntara...
...Alain Ducasse, and includes inventive dishes such as braised calf-foot-and-shin "fingers," served with sautéed organic snails from Devon and a garlic and parsley risotto. Across the quayside, top toque Martin Wishart has opened a designer cookery school, www.cookschool.co.uk, and a namesake restaurant on the waterfront, www.martin-wishart.co.uk, which he runs with his wife Cecile. Wishart's eclectic approach engenders dishes like haggis bonbons, chilled sweetcorn soup with basil sorbet, and pressé of foie gras and smoked pheasant with rhubarb curd...