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Zeckendorf was well connected politically, and Pei enjoyed learning about the social world of New York's city planners.
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In the spring of 1948 Pei was recruited by New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf to join a staff of architects for his firm of Webb and Knapp to design buildings around the country.
Soon Pei was so inundated with projects that he asked Zeckendorf for assistants, which he chose from his associates at the GSD, including Henry N. Cobb and Ulrich Franzen.
The project took one year and exceeded its budget, but Zeckendorf was delighted with the results.
The United Nations Headquarters complex was constructed in New York City in 1949 – 1950 beside the East River, on of land purchased from the foremost New York real estate developer of the time, William Zeckendorf.
The building was then acquired by real estate developer William Zeckendorf, who sought unsuccessfully for the New York Stock Exchange to move there.
During his time as CEO of Vivendi, Messier used corporate funds to buy a $ 17. 5 million apartment for his personal use at 515 Park Avenue at 60th Street in New York City, the swank Arthur Zeckendorf development that was home to luminaries such as Senator Jon Corzine.
He was born in Zeckendorf, ( near Bamberg ) Bavaria, Germany.
His father, Solomon Houseman, was a merchant and manufacturer of silk and cotton goods in Zeckendorf.
Houseman was educated in the national schools of Zeckendorf and Bamberg and finished with a two-year course of study at a commercial school at Munich.
Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Worldwide Plaza complex was developed by William Zeckendorf, Jr.
After the airfield was closed in 1951, the site was developed by New York's William Zeckendorf and designed by I. M.
William Zeckendorf, Sr. ( 1905 in Paris, Illinois – September 30, 1976 in New York City ) was a prominent American real estate developer.
20th did not have the money, which is why they brought in Zeckendorf, but apparently Zeckendorf was unable to deliver even the $ 53-million purchase price, let alone $ 400 million.
Still lacking sufficient money, Zeckendorf was forced to make $ 1000 per day penalty payments to Fox.
A consortium led by New York developer William Zeckendorf, Jr. was chosen to build and operate the building and lease it to the government.
Delta Partnership, a development consortium led by New York developer William Zeckendorf, Jr., was chosen to operate the building and lease it to the government.
" L ' Enfant Plaza " was the name proposed by New York City developer William Zeckendorf in February 1954 as the title for a cultural center within a development that would almost completely encompass all of Southwest D. C. ( an area designated as " Project C ").
Zeckendorf added an underground shopping mall of shops and restaurants to the project in November 1962, and construction on the promenade and plaza was slated to begin in April 1963.
In February 1969, Koubek, former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, and developer William Zeckendorf ceremonially broke ground for the West Building, which with of interior office space was the largest private office building at the time in Washington.
Developer William Zeckendorf offered the club the top floor of the Place Ville Marie tower in exchange for their property, but was turned down.
Edouard Zeckendorf ( 2 May 1901-16 May 1983 ) was a Belgian doctor, army officer and mathematician.
Zeckendorf was born in Liège in 1901.
Zeckendorf and Pei
Pei spent ten years working with New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf before establishing his own independent design firm that eventually became Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
William Zeckendorf ( shown here in the office redesigned by his architectural team ) hired Pei after ordering a search for what he called " the greatest unknown architect in the country ".
Architects I. M. Pei and Le Corbusier had worked for Zeckendorf on many of his projects.
Zeckendorf and about
Zeckendorf's theorem, named after Belgian mathematician Edouard Zeckendorf, is a theorem about the representation of integers as sums of Fibonacci numbers.
Zeckendorf and New
In August 1958, William Zeckendorf, a friend of Wright's and a New York real estate developer then involved in several development projects on Chicago's south side, acquired the Robie House at Wright's urging from the seminary through his development company Webb & Knapp.
Zeckendorf also owned New York's Chrysler Building, the venerable Hotel Astor in Times Square, purchased the Robie House in 1958 before transferring ownership to the University of Chicago, and built the Mile High Center in Denver, Colorado and Place Ville Marie in Montreal, Canada.
Zeckendorf hired New York public relations executive Tex McCrary to lend new life and visibility to the project.
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Zeckendorf loved the design and even showed it off to Le Corbusier when they met.
) They gained the freedom to work with other companies, but continued working primarily with Zeckendorf.
He had developed a close friendship with Zeckendorf, and both men were sad to part ways.
In 1953, the real estate developer William Zeckendorf bought the 740 Park Avenue apartment complex and then sold it to Rockefeller, who quickly turned the building into a cooperative, selling it on to his rich neighbors in the building.
In February 1963, Zeckendorf donated the building to the University of Chicago.
William Zeckendorf joined the Firm in 1938 and acquired it in 1949.
was and well
He was well rid of her.
The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.
Leading his pony, he hurried that way, not remounting till he was well below the level of the surrounding range.
I was so scared well, I just ran to my car and came here ''.
I must say the figure was well made up.
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
Karipo was something of a politician as well as a militarist.
The Command post was underground, and well camouflaged.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.
Soon he was playing in the Cologne Municipal Orchestra, and during World War 1,, when musicians were scarce, he joined the opera orchestra as well.
The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.
In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.
A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.
Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.
In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.
But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.
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