LONDON At a press briefing today, researchers, government and biomedical charity officials, and architects unveiled design drawings and a scientific vision for a mammoth lab facility here that one participant says will be a "cathedral of science".
In a Washington Post local opinion piece this weekend, Trump -- who was recently awarded the redevelopment rights for the financially draining Federal Triangle building at 12th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue -- laid out his vision for the mammoth project, which will see the 113-year-old structure transformed into the Trump International Hotel.
Purvis Young, a self-taught painter who emerged from prison as a young man and by dint of his striking, expressionist vision of urban life and mammoth output over more than three decades transformed a forgotten Miami neighborhood into a destination for contemporary art aficionados, died on Tuesday in Miami.
And while many mammoth corporate success stories are often the vision of a single captain of industry–a Henry Ford, a J. P. Morgan or a Larry Ellison in a few instances they are the work of a tag team of individuals who complement each other's strengths and may, just as importantly, sharpen each other's instincts for distinguishing opportunities.
He thrives in the open floor, employing court vision that doesn't seem fair, using his mammoth hands to toy with helpless defenders.
"Voyages and Visions," on view through Feb. 18 and including one of the mammoth plate cameras of the early days of the medium, presents more than 80 photographs that explore how Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America were depicted from 1839 through the 1850's.
The 1.2-acre project is part of a broader vision for an extensive waterfront where families can dine and listen to music while watching mammoth cargo ships traverse the nation's largest container port.
Will it be a mammoth, walk-in sculpture, designed for all intents and purposes by Mr. Libeskind himself, or will it adhere to the initial vision he outlined last February, when he was chosen to design the master plan?
