While pleading with Pyongyang officials for understanding and the banks for debt relief, Mong Hun has little chance of fulfilling his father's final dream -- construction of a $20 billion industrial park in the North.
When men dream about construction, though, their one-track mind, Mr. Ciardullo said, stays on a purely unrealistic bigger-is-better track.
Le Professeur Taranne (performed 1953) was about a university professor unable to live up to his public role; though the play is dictated by the absurd logic of a dream, the construction and characterizations are firm and clear.
From small colour photographs came paintings and drawings and, later, three-dimensional miniature constructions, called "dream buildings" because the first one was inspired by a dream ("I got up and I thought to myself that if Jasper Johns, an artist I respect very much, dreamed that he painted the American flag, and then did it, I could make my dream building," he wrote).
Men with brooms, like lost souls, were plodding up and down the Corridor of Time - an exciting dream-like construction with great pendulums swinging overhead, ticking out the debatable story of the ascent of man.
Presented in these pages are the dream-like constructions of a modern-day Henri Rousseau, whose single-minded botanical pursuit has become an art form.
On the discarded sculptural elements from Penn Station: "Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man.
But the global financial crisis deferred this urban dream, greatly slowing construction, curtailing ambitious plans for a personal rapid transit system, and rendering the stated goal of full carbon neutrality seemingly impossible.
Environmentalists in this cloud forest of northern Ecuador still dream of halting construction of a new oil pipeline that the builders said could bring spectacular wealth to this poor Andean country.
In March Dr. Miguel Sánchez Romera, a neurologist who owns the Michelin-starred L'Esguard near Barcelona, Spain, will open a restaurant in the new Dream Hotel under construction on Ninth Avenue and 17th Street.
