Word: architectes
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...magazine. "Even though it was the middle of the summer, no-one had heard of Pecha Kucha, and we didn't advertise at all, both events were total sellouts." Last month, the city hosted its biggest Pecha Kucha yet, with 1,500 aficionados greeting such creative luminaries as Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Tunisian-born designer Tom Dixon. "It's new, it's improvised and chaotic," says Viktor Oldiges, organizer of the recently launched Shanghai evenings. That certainly doesn't sound like any presentation we've sat through before. To find a Pecha Kucha Night near you, visit pecha-kucha.org
...from emerging as one of the sanest accommodation choices in Taipei. Style-conscious guests will recognize the Philippe Starck and Ferruccio Laviani furnishings throughout the property, yet local design talent takes most of the credit for the beautifully sparse look of the city's first truly hip hotel. Taiwanese architect Wei-Min Lee has housed Ambience in a 10-story neon-lit tower; local designer Ted Su (the man responsible for the look of Taipei's popular group of Roxy bar-clubs, as well as newer venues like TU and Wind) is the originator of the hotel's cool...
...Taiwanese architect Wei-Min Lee has housed Ambience in a 10-story neon-lit tower; local designer Ted Su (the man responsible for the look of Taipei's popular group of Roxy bar-clubs, as well as newer venues like TU and Wind) is the originator of the hotel's cool-as-ice interior. The monochromatic approach is taken to extremes - even the foliage in the Ambience Lounge has been lacquered white - so this is not a hotel for lovers of old-fashioned opulence. Still, everyone else should be happy with the 61 guest rooms and suites, where glass...
...Suskind writes that CIA officials threatened to harm 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's kids, ages seven and nine, if he didn't cooperate with his interrogators in Thailand. "So fine," Khalid Sheikh Mohammed responded to the threat, according to one of Susskind's sources. "They'll join Allah in a better place...
...piety extends to the boss' pay. Though the business house carries his name, Ratan Tata merely draws a salary from Tata Sons. And while hardly poor, he takes personal modesty seriously. Tall, guarded and retaining the outsider's accent he picked up in an earlier life as a trainee architect in the U.S., he is famously private. He lives with his two German shepherds, Tito and Tango, in the same second-floor apartment in Bombay that he has kept for 20 years. He is one floor below his stepmother, and neighbors say they have never known him to throw...