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September 8, 2009, 4:18 pm

Amanda Burden apparently doesn’t want to get Ratnered by MoMA. Burned by a post-approval architect swap at Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic

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October 7, 2009, 6:23 am

Jean Nouvel wants his 200 feet back. Mr. Nouvel, the bald Frenchman who won architecture’s esteemed Pritzker Prize in 2008,

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July 26, 2011, 8:00 pm

New York City may have brought down Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but another torrid Frenchman will not be held up by the

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August 8, 2011, 3:09 pm

When Amanda Burden and the City Planning Commission cut Jean Nouvel’s Torre Verre down to size, the architectural cogniscenti were

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August 15, 2011, 3:12 pm

It was Amanda Burden who stopped the MoMA Tower, giving Jean Nouvel’s 1,250-foot spire a haircut, and it is up

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May 22, 2012, 12:55 pm

Last year, The Observer discovered that Jean Nouvel’s soaring MoMA Tower—called “the most exhilarating addition to the skyline in a

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