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Hotels competing to offer the best in sleep are creating super-slumber chambers, with soft lighting, modified minibars stocked with herbal teas, and more. Take the KN Tranquility Suite, created for the Hotel Monaco in Chicago by pajama designer Karen Neuberger, with soothing colors and luxe bamboo bedding. Or consider the Fairmont Washington D.C., where the sleep menu includes a de-stress neck massage, an in-room yoga sleep class, herbal teas or smoothies with lavender cookies, and a teddy bear. "It does help," says business traveler Emily Gilden, whose frequent trips often left her weary until she started exploring...
...will almost invariably reach up to get their briefcases and garment bags. Video footage of emergency evacuations often shows people sailing down the slides clutching rolling suitcases. Chloe, 24, was a passenger on the British Airways flight. "I got to the door, and I realized I was holding a bamboo hat - and just thought, what am I doing rescuing a hat from a crashed plane?" she told the Coventry Telegraph...
...upon two colossal rocks - emphasize harmony with nature. The most striking photograph in Robson's book shows the candlelit open-air restaurant of Collure's hotel sublimely canopied by a jumbo black boulder. Mok's Morley Road House (Singapore, 1996) blends ancient Chinese garden designs - a koi pond, bamboo hedges - with sharp Modernist forms while blurring inside/outside spatial distinctions. Just so, Bawa's naturally ventilated Ena de Silva House (Sri Lanka, 1960) borrowed from Sinhalese manor houses and Kandyan spaces - shrine room, verandahs - to create something new: an innovative, urban courtyard home with windows that could be used, according...
...That man is Eko Agus Prawoto, a 49-year-old Yogyakarta architect trained locally and in the Netherlands. He is belatedly winning plaudits for his blend of contemporary design, sensitivity to local conditions and use of materials - bamboo, coconut wood, terracotta - that are sustainable, often recycled and highly suitable for regions liable to geological disturbances and flooding. Immediately after the quake, this self-styled "village architect" used Japanese and Indonesian aid money to build more than 130 shelters. He hoped the design of the rough-and-ready structures would serve as models for local villagers, encouraging them to give...
...made a building that resonates with sense of place while seeming up to date. Its entrance is in the style of a limasan, or traditional Javanese house - chosen because the Cemeti is intended to be a "home" for art, not a cold exhibition space. The humble materials used (timber, bamboo, woven bamboo) are welcoming, and natural light floods the premises. Unenclosed verandahs reinforce the connection between the building and the street. "Eko has a special concept that believes in letting the clients design their space," says gallery founder Nindityo Adipurnomo...