The 330-car garage, the newest building of the hospital complex, is being saved and adapted by the New York architect Walter Chatham who has designed a "liner building" of apartments -- basically a building attached to the side of the garage that is big enough to accommodate a row of apartments.
But underneath that is a woman who never attended college, who rose from bank teller to company president and who now must oversee both the largest ocean liner building project ever undertaken and the huge marketing effort to help it succeed.
The chemical ethylene, which is largely derived from natural gas, is used to make things like pool liners, building insulation and food packaging.
"If we speak frankly," John Maynard Keynes once wrote, "we have to admit that our basis of knowledge for estimating the yield 10 years hence of a railway, a copper mine, a textile factory, the goodwill of a patent medicine, an Atlantic liner, a building in the City of London amounts to little and sometimes to nothing; or even five years hence".
"If we speak frankly," Keynes wrote, "we have to admit that our basis of knowledge for estimating the yield ten years hence of a railway, a copper mine, a textile factory, the goodwill of a patent medicine, an Atlantic liner, a building in the City of London amounts to little and sometimes to nothing".
As Keynes put it "If we speak frankly, we have to admit that our basis of knowledge for estimating the yield ten years hence of a railway, a copper mine, a textile factory, the goodwill of a patent medicine, an Atlantic liner, a building in the City of London, amounts to little and sometimes nothing.
"Our basis of knowledge for estimating the yield ten years hence of a railway, a copper mine, a textile factory, the goodwill of a patent medicine, an Atlantic liner, a building in the City of London amounts to little and sometimes to nothing," he wrote.
One of DuPont's products, Tyvek, a building liner that keeps heat in and moisture out, has quietly changed construction over the last decade.
Its title, Montague Terrace, comes from the block of flats in which it's set, a decaying art deco ocean liner of a building that made me think of Marine Court in Hastings, where Iain Sinclair, psychogeographer extraordinaire, maintains a weekend home – rather fitting, given that most of its characters could have walked straight out of the pages of one of his more capacious books.
A photo of Vancouver Public Library where we visit every week: studsup remembers going to the local library even before knowing what it was – and reflects on 21st-century changes: As a very young child I remember my mother clutching my hand as I walked wide-eyed through the fog towards this blazing liner of a building which much later I realised was the large local branch library.
And then there is the new Whitney, that brilliant tribute to American art, a luxury liner of a building, moored to the foot of the High Line.
