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Certainly, Schrager's too-cool-for-school hotels have been copied relentlessly. Starwood Hotels & Resorts hired architects such as Ricardo Bofill and Charles Gwathmey to design its flourishing W Hotels, a chain many felt was a direct rip-off of Schrager. Marriott's Ritz-Carlton has partnered with the Italian jewelry company Bulgari to create a string of boutique hotels...
When researchers and activists gather in Toronto next week for the XVI International AIDS Conference, those problems may at last get some attention. One major concern of AIDS experts is the design of clinical drug trials, which typically exclude older folks because of their age and other health problems. And try to find a prevention poster or ad campaign geared to sexually active seniors. In many cases, those people may need the information as much as the young do. "People who no longer have to worry about pregnancy don't see the need for a condom," says Jeanine Reilly, executive...
...less, for rent, fine dining, entertainment, shopping, the works. Buenos Aires, true enough, offers up all the comforts of home and more: wide Parisian boulevards, the world’s best beef, trendy boliches (or discotheques, to use the not-so-trendy local term), an up-and-coming design community, beautiful people, and ample psychotherapeutic support to deal with the lingering guilt of living like kings among the ruins of what was once Latin America’s strongest economy. For the record, there are more psychoanalysts per capita in Buenos Aires than in any other city in the world.Argentina...
Corker said that he’s been working closely with Veritas Records to design performance space for groups. “We’ve really been taking cues from musicians on campus,” he said. One of the music rooms will contain a drum set for rock-and-roll groups on campus who might have difficulty practicing in House music rooms...
...Lebanese Army is weak not just by neglect, but also by design, however. Like the Lebanese government, the military allocates power and position on the basis of maintaining the delicate sectarian consensus that ended decades of bloody civil war. Domestic political stability rather than military effectiveness has been the guiding principle of its development. "The Lebanese army is a mirror of all the country; its job is to maintain stability in the country," said Retired General Salim Abu Ismail, a former military attache to Washington and the managing editor of Al Defaiya Defense Magazine. "During the Civil War, every sect...