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[Manor Care Inc, Gaithersburg -- Greenwell Goetz]

• weeded option
  "But those people have been weeded out. This wasn't an optional thing." (Diamond, director of facilities services for Manor Care, in Ginsberg S, wp_98.01.11)

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[Bathurst Creative Works Centre -- Merrima, the State Government's Aboriginal Design Unit]

• inmates competition
  "The golden eel design is another corrective services project, at Grafton. ... 'People come to us because we are looking at cultural maintenance.'" (Denis Kombumerrie of Merrima in Hill K, smh_97.12.27)

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[Celebration, Florida -- Robert AM Stern, Jaqueline Robertson]

• confidentiality agreement
  "Disney's expertise at making places and synthesizing urban experience cannot be separated from its legendary obsession with control; it is, even more than most, a corporation that lives by scripts of its own scrupulous devising. ...

  'It's is absolute top-down control,' ... 'The homeowners are powerless against the association and the association is powerless against Disney. I can't imagine anything more undemocratic.' ..." (Evan McKenzie, a lawyer and expert on homeowners' associations, in Pollan M, nytm_97.12.14)

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[Conde Nast Building, New York -- Fox & Fowle]

• brown duck
  "But right now this building, approaching the halfway point, is at the interesting stage when it no longer belongs to the developer, the Durst Corporation, or to the architects, Fox & Fowle, or to its future tenants. It belongs to the construction workers, men and a few women dressed, for the most part, in brown duck and wearing hard hats with all the aplomb of a young Sinatra in his snap-brim Cavanaugh." (Editorial nyt_97.12.12)

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[New 42 Studios, New York --Platt Byard Dovell]

• armature
  "The building is referred to by planners as New 42 Studios. But Ms Cahan said she hoped that the building would eventually be named for a corporate or individual donor." (Lyman R, nyt_97.11.19)

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[Trammell Crow Center, Dallas]

• leaks
  "The bigger the building, the costlier the fix. Crescent Real Estate Equities Co is about to spend approximately $1 million to reseal the walls on a recent purchase, the Trammell Crow Center, a 50-story skyscraper built in downtown Dallas in 1984. It will take workers about a year to remove the old caulk from thousands of feet of joints, grind down the surfaces and apply new seal." (Templin N, wsj_97.11.12)

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[Berkeley Court, Berkeley -- Novosel]
  120,000sf; $54 mil

• urban NIMBYism
  "It is not a suburban courthouse, it is an urban courthouse, and it's got to be an urban building ... it needs to be more than a five-courtroom boutique courthouse." (Fried R, tr_97.10.30)

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[Chrysler Corporate Headquarters, Detroit --SHG Inc]
  950,000sf

• mistaken
  "At the top of the tower, a 32-foot-tall window in the shape of the company's signature Pentastar logo gives the place an unmistakable corporate identity." (Christian NM, wsj_97.10.29)

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[Teatro Real, Madrid]

• disbelief opera
  "... there was even talk of a phantom. ... The architect died of a heart attack while presenting his plans to reporters. His replacement made radical changes that required years more work and the builders went bankrupt.
  Then just as things got back on track, the theatre's spectacular 2.7-tonne crystal chandelier crashed to the floor as workers were adding finishing touches." (Ober T, r_97.10.11)

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[Marina City, Chicago]

• blues hotel
  "We admire Marina City from a distance; from picture postcards, tourists' snapshots and passing cars. The sad truth of it all? It's probably better that way. Up close, Marina City is ugly. It was made so by 30 years of uninspired ownership that let the place go to the dogs." (Bey L, "Marina City in need of protection," cst_97.10.19)

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