"The money is flowing," said Steve Brittan, a principal at Burt Hill. "There never seems to be a shortage of financing for any of those projects."
When are you going to WAKE UP and SMELL the ZIONIST SHIT STINK, Amurka?
This 'crisis" is being DONE ON PURPOSE to DESTROY YOUR ECONOMY, America!!!!!!
WAKE the FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!
"World beckons Hub architects; As design business slows at home, Boston firms create masterpieces elsewhere" by Scott Van Voorhis, Globe Correspondent | October 18, 2008
With business slowing at home, Boston-area architects are jetting across the world to land monumental projects that even master builder Robert Moses might envy.
What is the CARBON FOOTPRINT on that, 'eh?
The Boston office of Cannon Design is designing a $1 billion medical center for the Saudi royal family. In Dubai, Boston firm Burt Hill cooked up an unusual horizontal "skyscraper." And in Beijing, Steffian Bradley is undertaking a 4-million-square-foot condominium complex that features 10 towers.
While Boston-area architectural firms have long enjoyed an international reputation for their overseas work, many are now winning competitions for the kind of signature projects that confer worldwide recognition. Many of the biggest are in emerging economies, where cash-rich countries such as Dubai and China continue to spend lavishly on undertakings of breathtaking size and ambition, even as a deepening credit crunch cuts off money for new projects in the United States.
How is that BOWL of SHIT tasting, Amurka?
U.S. Banks Driving Credit Crunch ON PURPOSE!!
America Never Had a Chance
At 1.8 million square feet, the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Saudi Arabia is as big as any major US medical center. The cutting-edge facility will have an all-electronic record-keeping system and a private wing for treatment of the royal family.
In Dubai, meanwhile, Burt Hill is making its mark with a skyscraper that rests on its side along the ground, instead of soaring into the sky. It is a quarter of a mile long, and features LED signage and advertising along its side. It is part of a larger, 2-mile-long development, appropriately named "Limitless."
"The money is flowing," said Steve Brittan, a principal at Burt Hill. "There never seems to be a shortage of financing for any of those projects."
Meantime, echoes of Boston can be found in Beijing, where Steffian Bradley is working on an enormous residential complex, using for inspiration the River Court project in Cambridge it designed several years ago, according to Deng.
The overnight success of these firms was years in the making, years of quiet, behind-the-scenes efforts. Before it won the King Faisal contract, Cannon was tested by Saudi officials on a much smaller project. In Pakistan, Boston architect Thomas Payette spent decades working on projects for local billionaire and philanthropist Aga Khan. Those efforts have landed a plum assignment for Payette: overseeing the construction of a $450 million liberal arts college.
Yeah, FUK AmeriKa!!!!!
The new Aga Khan University of Arts and Sciences will establish one of the first full-scale liberal arts colleges in the Middle East. The school, which is designed in Islamic city form, will eventually be home to 10,000 students. "Architects go where the work is," Payette said. --more--"
And IT AIN'T HERE, shit-eating Amurkn!!!!
