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...best ones in town. Now the Costes are making clear they intend to go well beyond limonade. A massive work in progress will expand their recently purchased luxurious K Palace hotel into the adjacent buildings on the swank Avenue Kléber. The remodeled K Palace, designed by architect Ricardo Bofill, should put the Costes in the front ranks of the city's hoteliers. "From the Bastille to Trocadéro, from Montparnasse to the Grands Boulevards - that's our fief, our little village," says Jean-Louis, 53, with a proprietary air. "It's a very good village." They...
Brown's Focus, a high-luster boutique in London's Mayfair district, is not what you would call a sizable space. There may be price tags in this shop bigger than the sales floor. But one reason David Adjaye is the hot British architect of the moment is that he knows you don't need much room for an exclamation point. So into this narrow shop he has insinuated a staircase of varnished particle board that runs from the lower level to the center of the main floor. Jazzy, glamorous and slightly disreputable, this is a staircase that...
...build a city is, of course, what every architect dreams of. Adjaye is getting there, one building at a time. Earlier this year the borough of Tower Hamlet in London's rough-edged East End broke ground on his largest project to date, a library so up to the minute--with its cafes and retail space, escalator atrium and digital displays across the exterior walls--that the lackluster term library has been put aside. The official name for this place is the Idea Store. Directed to create a library that would be as user friendly as a shopping mall, Adjaye...
...idea store would be a good way to describe the offices of Adjaye/Associates in decidedly unglamorous East London, near the defunct Gainsborough studios where Alfred Hitchcock made his early pre-Hollywood films. After a six-year partnership with the architect William Russell dissolved, Adjaye formed his own practice in 2000. He now has a staff of more than two dozen working on projects not only in Britain but in the U.S. as well. Last year the Rev. Eugene Rivers, a Boston-based activist clergyman, commissioned Adjaye to design an arts-and-media charter school in Dorchester, Mass...
...calls a nomadic instant-communication panel, left, which provides voice communication, interactive chatting, Internet access and movies, TV and games while in transit. "It's a connector, a medium and a refuge," says Baron. "The ultimate stimulus for our nomadic generation." Taking the notion of cell phone as appendage, architect David Rockwell called on the tattoo for inspiration and created a voice-activated Patch Phone, right. "It addresses how to connect the phone to a person's body, not in the cyborg-implant kind of way but similar to a nicotine patch," says Rockwell. It could also become fashionable, like...