"At 7-7, let's just say there was nobody in the building feeling real good about us," he said.
I recognized some of the terms ("facilitating leaders") and noted some new ones ("delegation with transparency," "agenda-building"), feeling the same impatient incomprehension.
Mr. Landman, whose top price for a larger apartment was around $450,000, didn't explore moving to a one-bedroom in his building, feeling that the maintenance there was too high.
Reached by telephone on Monday, John Burgee, one of the architects, recalled immediately that Ms. Huxtable was not fond of the building, feeling its nods to both past and present made it confusing.
I gazed in awe at the worn stone staircase that wound up to the second floor of the Beaux-Arts building, feeling almost compelled to tiptoe, as if entering a cathedral.
It's hard to do something like that and not to feel like it's symbolic – it's like the American dream for us, singing your song on top of the Empire State Building, feeling like: man, where were we 10 years ago, when we were sitting around in some punk rock dive bar, thinking about what to name our band, and New York City, and now here we are at the top.
Nevertheless, he quarreled with the administrators of the Washington State Building, feeling that it should be open on Sundays, when the largest crowds came to the grounds.
So we wandered the site of the former Jewish quarter, spotting only a few instances of Jewish stars and Hebrew writing chiseled into buildings, then feeling a little more hopeful when we reached the restored synagogue on Pylimo Street, one of the few Jewish institutions to survive the war.
Researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France and at the University of Liverpool in the U.K. have now developed a barrier that keeps buildings from feeling these waves.
He said he understood the concerns people have about apartment buildings increasingly feeling like hotels, but he criticized the proposed regulation for having a shortsighted view.
