• "Mercedes-Benz Selects ..." (prn_97.12.24)
  • "Mercedes-Benz of North America Launches Architectural Design Competition For New US Corporate Headquarters." (prn_97.10.30)

  
   

• "Disney's star architects building monuments to mouse ears -- The Architecture of Reassurance ..." (Whorisky P, mh.97.12.21)

   

• "Not Since Babel Has Such a Tower Risen From the Sands -- ... Is It Just an 'Ego Building'?" (wsj_97.12.18)

   

• "Court Architect to the Sun Kings of Commerce"
  -- "... the spoiler of an architect's work." (nyt_97.12.18)

   

• "Ultimate Renovation Project: Two 110-Story Towers -- NY World Trade Center." (Bleakley F, wsj_97.12.17)

   

• "Paramount Tower's Globe Is Ready to Glow Again -- Chimes to Mark Theater Time on Broadway," (Dunlap DW, nyt_97.12.17)

   

• "Take Me Out to the Ball Game -- Pacific Bell Park ... the first privately financed stadium to be built in more than 35 years." (Jereski L, wsj_97.12.17)

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• "Getty Opens Mammoth Hilltop Center to Public," (wsj_97.12.16)
  • "'We're going to have color here,' he says, strolling around architect Richard Meier's austere steel and marble hilltop structure overlooking Brentwood." (Barry Munitz, Getty Trust's New President and CEO, in Rose F, wsj_97.12.08)

  • "A Mountaintop Temple Where Art's Future Worships Its Past -- It is ribbon-cutting time at the Getty Center ..." (Muschamp H, nyt_97.12.01)

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• "Town-Building Is No Mickey Mouse Operation -- In carefully planned Celebration, Fla, Disney has created a script it can only partly control." (nytm_97.12.14)

   

• "Watching Construction -- Conde Nast Building is rising ..." (nyt_97.12.12)

   

• "A Peek Inside Petronas Towers -- Secrecy Shrouds World's Tallest Buildings as Economy Stumbles." (Wong Y, wsj_97.12.10)

   

• "Trammell Crow Buys Dallas Infomart -- Dallas' massive ... white elephant." (wsj_97.12.03)

   

• "That Nice Facade May Hide a Surprise
  -- ... what appears to be a collection of classic 19th century walk-ups is actually the facade for a 68,000sf self-storage facility ... to appease people who were mortified to discover such facility was being built in their community." (wsj_97.12.03)

   

• "Disney Donates to Hall -- ... with a grandiose design by Frank O Gehry ..." (nyt_97.12.02)

   

• "Gifts for Really, Really, Really Distinctive Homes"
  -- "If home is where the heart is, then America's hearts are full of fribble." (Crossen C, wsj_97.12.01)

  
  

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