The box-like eight-floor structure had dark brown bricks as facing tiles on the outside walls, a style that became popular in Shanghai in the 1930s.
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That's where he met a gallery owner who introduced him to Mr. Gonzalez, whose firm designed Miami's Alchemist store a glass box inserted into the fifth floor of a parking structure and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation.
Officials say the building collapsed as the owner was adding another floor to an already unsafe structure.
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From the banks, our boat must have looked a bit like some floating cubist sculpture, its white angular structure scored by floor-to-ceiling windows striped with balcony railings, its monochromatic figure floating in a backdrop of clear blue sky.
The main house is the more elevated structure and consists of an open floor plan with French terra-cotta tile floors, custom wrought iron and cathedral ceilings.
In deference to the historical nature of the home, the Pattersons preserved several elements of the original structure, including the Cuban tile floor in the living room and a limestone fireplace in the dining area.
Unibody construction, in which a vehicle's roof, door frames and floor pan are part of a unified, rigid structure, has made vehicles lighter and stiffer.
Not to the top of the 310-meter structure, unfortunately just to the 14th floor.
The three-floor block sits behind the Civic Centre in Southend and was built as a temporary structure in the 1980s.
The 45, 000-square-foot white structure will have no bearing walls and will include a huge top-floor skylight that will allow natural light to bathe the works.
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And even though Alan had never been in the hotel or real estate business, he had an unbelievable clarity of vision I'll never forget, in 2000, he walked me through this gutted brick structure and was describing the color of the curtains, the type of wood floor, the long bench in the entrance.
Completed in 2011, the other end of the structure is a four-story, 4, 000-square-foot house with under-floor heating, solar panels, low-energy appliances and the latest in triple-glazed windows.
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