All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 129
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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.
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Germany: Foster gets an education in Berlin
Following from its success with Berlin's Reichstag, Foster and Partners has unveiled plans for a new library at Berlin's largest further education institution, the Free University.
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UK: Rogers' dome may become new Eden
Richard Rogers Partnership's Millennium Dome in London has become a well-publicised millstone around the neck of the British government. But could slicing the top off it and installing transparent panels, effectively turning it into a greenhouse, be the answer?
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On the dock of the bay
A wharf jutting out of Sydney Harbour may seem an unlikely setting for the city's biggest designer hotel. Here's how a waterfront warehouse was transformed into an outpost of the W empire.
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Pain barrier
Beijing won the 2008 Olympics Games by pledging to clean up the city and improve its infrastructure. But for local people, the environment will get worse before it gets better.
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Hong Kong: wa hosts first international building awards
Hong Kong's design glitterati and architects from all corners of the globe poured into the waterfront convention centre on 22 June for the first World Architecture Awards.