When he opened Montrachet there in 1985, he pioneered the style of casual but elegant dining that celebrates high quality and shuns pretension and has defined the downtown experience ever since.
Mr. Wojnarowicz (1954-92) was a painter, photographer, writer, performance artist, filmmaker and an AIDS activist whose work helped define the anarchic downtown Manhattan art scene of the 1980s.
Wojnarowicz (pronounced voy-nah-ROH-vitch) was a painter, a photographer, a writer, a performance artist, a filmmaker and an AIDS activist — he was gifted at all these things, save perhaps filmmaking — whose work helped define the anarchic downtown Manhattan art scene in the 1980s.
December 17 2015 December 19 201515 Both Monk, the composer-performer, and Waldman, the poet, are devoted experimentalists who have helped to define the city's downtown scene since the nineteen-sixties.
Older buildings downtown are dwarfed by the many modern office towers such as Pennzoil Place (1976), Chase Tower (1981), and Williams Tower (1983)—that now define the city skyline.
"What this collection of projects begins to do is define a downtown for the Bronx," he said.
The city's most important home-grown architect in the postwar period was John Portman, himself a developer, who built many of the postmodern towers that define downtown Atlanta, including the vast Peachtree Center, the Atlanta Merchandise Mart and the 70-story Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel.
In Birmingham, their campaign tactics focused on more narrowly defined goals for the downtown shopping and government district.
For example, you have to begin by defining the Places in question, like Mall, Downtown, School and so on.
Politics, corporate strategies, logistics, private initiatives and litigation are starting to define what downtown will become.
