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Products - Lighting
Find out how a troubled live music venue in London made it to opening night - and how the lighting design wowed the punters. Why LED's are the future. Bega Lighting's Verena Gantenbrink on why she couldn't keep away from her grandfather's business. Illuminating the angles and slashes of the ...
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Reading light
What do you get if you cross Libeskind's Jewish Museum and Star Wars' Death Star? The University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center and a massive challenge for the lighting designer.
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JAPAN: New Tokyo planned
The biggest urban design project since the creation of Brasilia has been launched in Japan with a proposal to build a new capital city.
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Inner space
For Jan Störmer and the designers of Hamburg's Side Hotel, it's what's inside that counts. Their high-fashion haunt is filled with bold colours, theatrical lighting effects and a trapezoidal lobby.
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The show must go on
Two team members going bust couldn't stop Ocean, London's new live music venue, opening on time. Lighting designer WA tells us how he made waves.
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Sector focus - Hotels
In this issue of wa, we report on new destination hotels in places as far-flung as Mexico City and Hamburg, Sydney and Bangalore.
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Hotels: Everyone's at it
High-profile designers and the world's biggest chains are bursting into the expanding boutique hotel market. Over the next 19 pages, we stop off in Mexico, India, Germany and Australia and meet Olga Polizzi, Sir Rocco Forte's sister and design director, to examine the trend.
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SPAIN: New museum for enlightened Valencia
A dramatic new Museum of Enlightenment and Modernity has just opened in Valencia.
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Greece: Olympic efforts
Plans to regenerate a 60ha area of central Athens have been unveiled as part of the city's preparations for the 2004 Olympic Games.
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NETHERLANDS: Mecanoo's divine intervention
Dutch architect Mecanoo has just completed a chapel in Rotterdam.
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World survey of the top one hundred interior design firms
The USA is carving up the largest slice of the interior design pie, taking nine of the first 10 places and accounting for more than half of the top 100. And, just like last year, Gensler has nabbed the number one spot. So what else is new? Well, there's the ...
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From dusk till dawn
By day, Hotel Habita is a pristine glass box. Once the sun has gone down, the TEN Arquitectos conversion is lit up like a lantern and its rooftop bar fills with Mexico City's beautiful people.
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Netherlands: Cruz and Ortiz are Dutch masters
Seville-based architects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have won a competition for the restoration and extension of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.
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SPAIN: Koolhaas' chutzpah wins the day
There is usually no better way to lose a competition than to violate its conditions. But in the recent contest for the Córdoba Congress Centre in southern Spain, Rem Koolhaas won with a scheme that did just that.
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China: Shanghai orders takeaway
Construction is about to start on a 'Dutch' town in Shanghai. The 20,000 dwellings that will make up Gaoqiao Town are modelled on contemporary Dutch architecture.
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China: Shanghai plans green towers
Shanghai City Council is in discussions to build a cluster of high-rises so environment-friendly they will be 'carbon neutral'.
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USA: New Yorkers protest at TWA building plan
New York conservation groups are loudly opposing a redevelopment that could threaten Eero Saarinen's seminal TWA building at John F Kennedy Airport
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Charge of the light brigade
LEDs aren't just for calculators. In fact, they're the latest thing in lighting design and manufacturers are battling it out to provide the biggest range of colours and the brightest white light.
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UK: Bridge over London water
Spotting a gap in the market has taken on a whole new meaning for UK practice Cartwright Pickard.
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Blue dawn
In the first of a series on building interiors, how Design Office formed a new kind of collaboration to create IBM's first e-Business Center in Chicago. The technology giant's clients certainly seem to like it. Since the centre opened, they have awarded IBM contracts worth US$35m.