Entertainment and Amenities Sliding doors reveal a lower deck wrapped in plush cream sofas—perfect for catching a Croatian sea breeze with a late-night brandy snifter or a fresh morning latte—and a walkway circling to a watersports platform.
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Lewis Nunn,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
The elliptical walkway in the current design, which harks back to the onePulse approach, may be its most lasting impact.
It was built in 1972, a single-story brick building with a perfunctory colonnade and parking in the rear.
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Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Feb. 2024
The Vatican, with its life-sized creche and giant Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square and outdoor exhibit of nativity scenes in the Bernini colonnade ringing it, qualifies as an at-risk target.
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Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2024
Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
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