Moshe Safdie on building uniqueness

Because it seems to me that finding this uniqueness has to do with dealing with the whole force of globalization that the particular is central to finding the uniqueness of place and the uniqueness of a program in a building.

And scientists, amidst complexity, amidst fluctuation and uniqueness.

As uniqueness was not easy to achieve in an electronic environment, the draft convention excluded instruments that required uniqueness in draft article 2, paragraph 2.

But one recognized the kind of uniqueness of the site.

How do you discover the uniqueness of a project as unique as a person?

It must rely on dialogue as the foundation to enhance such respect for the uniqueness of others.

9. We acknowledge the uniqueness of the diversity, and dynamics between the subregions of Asia and the Pacific.

The concept originated in a paper based environment and although the draft convention sought to transpose it into an electronic environment, the characteristic of uniqueness remained.

The hurdy gurdy has been used, historically, through the centuries in mostly dance music because of the uniqueness of the melody combined with the acoustic boombox here.

But this has led, in turn, to an anxious, balkanizing quest for identity. This effort to recover uniqueness is largely the cause of the international system s growing fragmentation.

Mr. Mazzoni (Italy) said he agreed with the representative of the United States that paragraph 2 of draft article 2 resolved the uniqueness issue raised by the Belgian delegation.

The World Bank had endorsed those commitments and recognized the need to ensure that the development process encouraged full respect for the dignity and uniqueness of all peoples, especially the poorest and most marginalized.

In his introductory remarks, the Director of the Evaluation Office stressed that the uniqueness and strength of evaluation in UNICEF was its decentralized system, and that mid term reviews (MTRs) and major evaluations reflected regional realities and diversities.

Europe s debt crisis has produced a profound division of political and also economic opinion. Those who emphasize the historical uniqueness of Europe s monetary solution insist that other countries which control their own monies could not possibly fall into such a predicament.

Within a mobile and open Europe, there can be no fencing off of foreign cultures contact cannot be avoided. Diversity has to be lived, which means establishing one's own uniqueness and learning to cope in and with other regions and mindsets.

In its efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and to make a success of its post conflict programme, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was confronted with major obstacles arising out of the uniqueness and complexity of its situation.

NEW YORK I have just returned from Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom of unmatched natural beauty, cultural richness, and inspiring self reflection. From the kingdom s uniqueness now arises a set of economic and social questions that are of pressing interest for the entire world.

The program's main topics are individual development at the person's own paste, uniqueness, acceptance of the other even when different, male minors and female minors being equal yet different, developmentally adapted sexual urges, consensual contact with others, and mutual decisions in a relationship.

These include level of difficulty in reaching the destination (availability of travel nodes and travel time), regional balance, visa issues including transit visas, level of key officials expected to open close the meeting, avoidance of repetition, and uniqueness of host country circumstances.

While there is only so much land in any one of the existing superstar cities, in every case, there are vast amounts of land where a new city could be started. And new cities are started, taking away from the uniqueness of existing cities.

On October 29, leaders of the European Union will gather in Rome to sign the Union's new Constitutional Treaty. Praise for the document's uniqueness will undoubtedly be heard, and in this they won't be boasting, because the EU Constitution is unlike any other constitution ever written.

Women in fertile age deserve special attention due to the role of the woman in the family and the society, in relation to her position during the development of the society and social relations, as well as due to her biological functions and the uniqueness of these functions.

The redesign panel shall, in particular, consider alternative systems for resolving staff grievances by considering other models of organizational dispute resolution, while acknowledging the uniqueness of the United Nations system, in particular the immunity of United Nations staff from national laws and, thus, the lack of recourse to national courts.

Historical proof that globalization does not necessarily mean homogenization can be seen in Japan, a country that deliberately isolated itself from earlier waves of globalization. In the middle of the nineteenth century, Japan became the first Asian country to embrace globalization, and to borrow successfully from the world without losing its uniqueness.

But science is not a competition between scientists it is a contest of ideas namely, explanations of what is out there in reality, how it behaves, and why. These explanations are initially tested not by experiment but by criteria of reason, logic, applicability, and uniqueness at solving the mysteries of nature that they address.

As indicated in the Secretariat's latest study on this issue (A CN.9 WG.IV WP.90), the particular problem involved in creating an electronic equivalent for the transfer of a paper based original is how to provide a guarantee of uniqueness equivalent to possession of the original of a document of title or negotiable instrument.

Restaurant chains such as McDonald s, for example, have transformed agriculture around the world with their homogenizing requirements for meat, bread, potatoes, and the like. Under the assumption that consistency equals quality, variation in the size or color of, say, tomatoes has come to be considered bad (unless one calls them heirloom tomatoes and emphasizes their uniqueness).

Mr. Caprioli (France) said that he supported the United States delegation's view regarding draft paragraphs 4 and 5 and agreed with the distinction drawn between an environment in which the uniqueness of an original was important, as in the case of negotiable instruments which were not covered by the draft convention, and an environment in which singularity was not required.

A unique feature of today s debate is its cohort of public intellectuals like Jacques Marseille, Nicolas Baverez, Elie Cohen, and Stephane Rozes, none of whom subscribe to the hoary notion of French uniqueness (the so called exception française ). Their thinking is at the forefront of a widening recognition that France must face the world s challenges as they really are, not as the French want them to be.

But it is precisely this reasoning that is threatened by what Hwang and his team claimed to have achieved. If it is the uniqueness of human embryos that makes it wrong to destroy them, then there is no compelling reason not to take one cell from an embryo and destroy the remainder of it to obtain stem cells, for the embryo s unique genetic potential would be preserved.

Those who emphasize the historical uniqueness of Europe s monetary solution insist that other countries which control their own monies could not possibly fall into such a predicament. Here the statist thesis is reflected in its boldest form there cannot be a bond strike in the United States or the United Kingdom, because their central banks have at their disposal the full panoply of policy tools including unconventional operations needed to ensure that debt is monetized.