Place St.-Job is lined with old buildings whose floors aren't quite aligned with their neighbors, staggering building heights to charmingly ad hoc result; at the stand's picniclike tables I found a family and several couples sharing fries with mayonnaise.
The 40,000 sq ft art gallery – a staggering building made of irregular glass panels rising into the sky in a ululating motion like a windmill – was opened last year at a reported cost of $143m.
Convulsive changes in property values, staggering building undertakings, colossal bankruptcies, the reciprocal action of destruction and construction: this is the normal metabolism of a healthy and living city.
The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial (chicago architecturebiennial), a celebration of all things architectural and a showcase for new ideas in building design, kicks off on Saturday in this city of staggering buildings, and runs until 3 January 2016.
These.000001 Percenters ("a group that could fit comfortably in one single Gulfstream G650 luxury jet," per the report) include Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and Phil Knight of Nike multibillionaires who've amassed staggering fortunes while building business empires.
Mentally he divides what he sees into three categories: "There's the Oh, the Oh My and the Oh My God," Mr. Lauder said this week, perched on a Josef Hoffmann sofa in his commodious office on the 42nd floor of the General Motors building, with staggering views of Manhattan and walls filled with paintings by Egon Schiele, Gerhard Richter, Oskar Kokoschka and Joseph Beuys.
Athough the Burj Khalifa in Dubhai is already impressive as the tallest man-made structure on Earth (a staggering 2,722 feet), the building might become twice as salient.
If anything, Murdoch is one of the greatest risk takers in business history, at one point betting the whole company by building up a staggering debt in what later proved to be a successful bid to build a global media empire.
2. In 1971, Andy Warhol and his partner, Paul Morrissey, paid $225,000 for Eothen, a seven-building compound with staggering ocean views.
They feature up-to-the-minute electronics, marble baths, Frette linens and, if you're lucky, staggering views of the Empire State Building.
What's Nearby UT Austin campus and the Texas Capital Building are both in staggering distance to Scholz Garten.
