By tapping a range of renowned architects and designers, Mr. Schrager plans to give each property a distinct character.
We asked a range of writers, architects and activists around the world to share their 2017 wishlist for their city – from better inclusivity in Accra to "walking school buses" in New York.
In other words, the new brokers advised the owners — Christopher M. Jeffries of Millennium Partners; David T. Hamamoto, the chairman of the Morgans Hotel Group; and James O'Brien and Richard Reinhardt of Reinhardt & O'Brien Contracting in Bridgehampton — to open up the lots to a wider range of developers and architects.
Smart City is an an urban development mission and concept we hear increasingly as a range of thinkers, technologists, architects, engineers, designers, artists and environmentalists come together to plan smart ways of building cities for citizens.
The judges called the £40.9m project the "clear winner" on the six-strong shortlist "because it demonstrates the full range of the skills that architects can offer to society".
The Design in Mental Health Network (DiMHN), which organised the event, is a social enterprise that aims to bring together people with a range of experience, such as architects, designers, service users and mental health professionals, to share ideas about the design of mental healthcare settings.
Mr. Viñoly, of course, was a member of the Think team, the group of architects -- ranging from Frederic Schwartz of Manhattan to Shigeru Ban of Tokyo -- whose design lost out to Mr. Libeskind's in the final stages of the ground zero competition.
Like Michelangelo, Raphael had an extraordinary range of gifts – he was architect, interior decorator, painter and town planner.
Since the first wave of Beaux-Arts construction, succeeding generations of architects have poured a range of European styles into the mix.
