In the centre, the architecture ranges from neo-Baroque, turn-of-the-century mansions to sporadic Soviet-built boxes losing their tiles.
Opnet went public in August 2000, just in time for the turn-of-the-century bust in tech and telecom.
This casino hotel has a turn-of-the-19th-century look, with Victorian antiques, ornate mahogany woodwork and art-nouveau chandeliers in the public areas.
This follows the successful decade-long redevelopment of the turn-of-the-century Armory Square section of downtown into a trendy restaurant and nightclub district.
He understates, I think, the degree of provincial intolerance in turn-of-the-century America.
In another series of works, Greenfield takes photos of turn-of-the-century blackface performers and superimposes a subversive message that looks like an eye chart.
Prior to the first play, the audience is invited to sing along with engaging turn-of-the-century songs played on an upright piano by Carol Schultz.
Despite the realism of having tasteful, turn-of-the-last-century furniture on Beowulf Boritt's cement-walled set, and Alejo Vietti's tasteful period costumes, the play remains quite surreal.
More significantly, after a battle over saving a number of turn-of-the-century Chicago buildings, the city moved to protect several modern masterpieces including Mies's apartment blocks.
This turn-of-the-20th century home in the San Francisco real estate market may have even seen its share of spies back in the day.
The historic co-op retains much of its turn-of-the-century detailing, including leaded windows, a multi-paned picture window, dark paneled walls, oak doors and original cage elevator.
Turn-of-the-century Harvard University once required applicants to perform, under teacher supervision, several of 40 physics experiments and submit a record of their observations and measurements.
But whereas mug shots encourage you to look for differences between yourself and the person in the photograph, Bertillon's turn-of-the-century crime-scene stills uncomfortably reveal similarities.
From the high-speed-train tracks, escalators lifted me past a bold new gridded superstructure by architect Jacques Voncke into the glorious cathedral of the original turn-of-the-20th-century station.
Kristian Fredrikson's costumes put Ms Blanchett in ravishing, long turn-of-the-century gowns that make the most of her endless yards of torso, spidery arms and almost inhuman swan neck.
The Roosevelt pin fetched the high price because of its rare depiction of African-American infantrymen following Roosevelt up San Juan Hill a fact that turn-of-the-century button makers tended to ignore.
The action such as it is takes place in a turn-of-the-century school for servants, run by the creepy Herr Benjamenta (Gottfreid John) and his sister (Alice Krige), who is beautiful, nervous, and remote.
Period furnishings and chandeliers complete the turn-of-the-century effect.
The company, which dates back to a turn-of-the-century maker of brass curtain rods in upstate New York, had grown quickly in the 1980s and 1990s by acquiring manufacturers of office supplies and housewares.
In "The Age of Innocence, " Edith Wharton wrote of turn-of-the-century American society belles stowing away their fresh-from-Paris dresses for at least a season or two, so as to not appear vulgar in New York society.
The scooters are emblazoned with a print inspired by the life of Florence Broadhurst, a turn-of-the-last-century singer and comedienne who founded a finishing school in Shanghai before moving to England and then to Australia to set up a wallpaper company.
Bernie Ebbers, the boss of WorldCom, was charged with fraud only this week although the company he ran (into the ground) went bankrupt in July 2002, and the trial of Jeffrey Skilling, the former boss of Enron, the totem for turn-of-the-century managerial abuse, could well be another two years away.
That night, Fridolin, a medical doctor, has professional duties that call him away, and as he strolls turn-of-the-century Vienna's cobbled streets, one sexual opportunity after another is laid before him: the willing daughter of a recently deceased colleague, a saucy prostitute, a simple girl whose father is pimping for her.
At a recent leadership conference in Chicago, for instance, he regaled 2, 000 middle managers with tales of Ernest Shackleton, a turn-of-the-century explorer who helped his party escape certain death in Antarctica -- and whose story just happened to be the subject of Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage, the first volume in the Adventure Library.
Famous for its turn-of-the century Painted Ladies, or Victorian-style homes many of which have been lovingly cared for, restored and modernized over time San Francisco offers luxury in the old as well as in new condos that have recently popped up in the Financial District and South Beach (yes, in San Francisco) neighborhoods.
The next generation of batteries--so-called lithium-polymer batteries--due in mass quantities sometime around the turn of the century, should extend that even longer.
Taking off from turn-of-the century France, with "petticoat pioneer" Alice Guy who saw beyond the camera's scientific uses.
Many teaching in medical schools today were raised in the better-living-though-chemistry age, when infant formula was thought to trump the attributes of breast milk. (Formula was certainly an improvement over the non-pasteurized cow's milk that killed many infants at the turn of the 20th century, when breast-feeding was not in vogue).
In the U.S., where the 19th-century (and turn-of-the-20th) dominates the high-end market, pieces that are signed by certain makers or artists typically command the top prices.
For example, without Machado, the work of Virginio Colombo, a highly esteemed Italian-Argentine architect from the turn of the 20th Century, would otherwise go undocumented.
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