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Prada Epicenter in New York - High Tech' Dressing/Changing Rooms 2 Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren 1999 - 2001 Prada Epicenter in New York [aka Prada Flagship or Prada (in) Soho] New York City, New York USA Super Smart Privacy Glass ...Although Privacy Glass is not in common use yet - the...

Prada Epicenter in New York - High Tech' Dressing/Changing Rooms 1 Designing a High-Tech Dressing Room for Prada SoHo Imagine yourself being told that you can try on very expensive clothing in glass room. That room will initially be transluscent, but if the switch is flicked by you, that...

Prada Epicenter in New York - Lower Level The Lower Level is where the displays are converted into sales. In addition, it is the locale of a small 'canteen retaurant,' offices, storage, and a marvelous first attempt at Prada to explore a high tech method of servicing a customer interested in...

Prada Epicenter in New York - the 'wave' element The sculptural element, spanning two floors, is what Rem Koolhaas refers to as a "wave" element. Examine how each side of this 'wave' differs, and how the angles vary, depending on your distance and perspective: Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren...

There has been some undeniably brilliant architecture going up in New York City of late, and some questionable, and finally, some just plain bad or bland-filler - depending of course on your provlivities. Nicolai Ouroussoff has been fairminded in this breezy piece, so no arguments here. The...

In Brazil, The Driving Is Sweeter Ethanol Research Leads To Cars That Can Run Entirely On The Sugarcane Alcohol March 29, 2006 (CBS) Wouldn't it be nice if, one day, we didn't have to worry about the ups and downs of the gas markets? Well in Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world...

Prada Epicenter in New York - a curious and expensive lift After spending a great deal of money on this lift to travel all of one floor, it is now used mainly by tourists, the elderly or the handicapped. It was designed to seat upwards of 20 people, and to travel up and down all of one level...

Prada Epicenter in New York - Broadway Street Level aka Upper Level The Upper Level is mostly used for display, not business. This is also where Prada Epicenter can be entered or ultimately exited in either of two ways. You must confront an expanse here, between this level and the Lower Level...

Prada Epicenter in New York - Floor Plans Floorplans are always interesting in the design process, but in this case they do not properly reveal the ways the space would be utilised except that one side spans two levels. One article in the New York Times, noted that Mr. Koolhaas was a Dutch...

As I tried to say in the very first post, Ms. Bhutto was an exceptionally bright individual by any standard you might use, team this with her obviously famous name due to her father, and a legacy of reform, all contribute to her enhanced image and loyal followers. In electing her not only the...

Prada Epicenter in New York Prada Epicenter in New York City is also the Prada flagship store. Many that come to New York to look for the Rem Koolhaas interior, often have mistaken the Prada on 5th Avenue as the Prada flagship, rather than the historical building in SoHo, that formerly operated...

Strange Things Uncovered While Researching Rem - #11 Money is the Imperial force in the World today ... dividing and conquering © Design Within Reach What you see above is not a series of placards from a protest, or even the slides from a radical-left group. Of course they are from a...

Indeed. The association of any city in Canada with images that rightly belong to the Northwest Territories is common in America to the point of being ludicrous. Recently, at a conference in Chicago, someone asked me how was it to return again to the Arctic cold and mountains of snow in Toronto...

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Here in Chicago it is less than one-hour from Midnight on a rapidly disappearing 2007. The snow has fallen heavily this evening and I look forward, with anxious anticipation, to the year ahead ...

Two of Two This comes from another thread by 299 bloor call control but is a more recent example. United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform December 2007 POLITICAL INTERFERENCE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION EXECUTIVE...

One of Two Decisions, money, politics and science can make for a very interesting brew. Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study Ian Sample, science correspondent The Guardian, Friday February 2 2007 Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded...

Educatorium - Christophe Cornubert © 1994-2007 archINform Christophe Jean-Marie Cornubert Despite his very European name, Christophe Cornubert was born and raised in Los Angeles, USA. He was also educated in his home city, all the way through graduate school. Eventually, Mr. Cornubert...

Educatorium - Bicycles not Motor Vehicles are sheltered We of the 'real world' are accustomed to seeing motor vehicles, belonging to the VIPs or Executives, parked inside reserved areas of the typical office building - the rest of the motor vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles, would be outside...

Educatorium - Interior 3 Outside, the largest of two Auditoria, appears to be a massive curving metallic structure in the hallways. Its shiny surface reflecting the wood in those hallways, and using a series of exposed aka 'naked' low-energy florescent lamps to illuminate the way. Next to...