Word: designators
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...Boutique hotels often over-compensate for their lack of size - and rebel against the cookie-cutter monotony of chain hotels - by going overboard on design. But Naumi, Singapore's latest boutique hotel, thankfully emphasizes the fundamentals - and very decent they are too. Located in the city center, just across from the Raffles Hotel, Naumi provides 40 good-sized rooms kitted out with quality amenities (think Aesop toiletries and organic teas), as well as stylish technology (wi-fi, portable IP-enabled phones and an iPod dock...
When Sharp Corp. wowed the world with its flat-screen liquid-crystal-display (LCD) television in 2001, it wasn't just a technological breakthrough. It was a step away from the box. "For the first time ever, television gave way to design," says Michio Ogawa, a senior member of the design team that created Sharp's pioneering Aquos line. "Flat panels turned the television from an eyesore when it's not turned on to an interior-design fashion statement...
...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...
...When it comes to design, Mangunwijaya spoke of the need for buildings to be intimately related to their external environments. Says Prawoto: "A building is not an autonomous object but also an emotional and social being." One of his more celebrated commissions, the award-winning Cemeti Art House museum in Yogyakarta, illustrates this well. In choosing neither to reference the imported Dutch Art Deco nor the syncretic "Indies" forms that proliferate in the city center - and by eschewing the predictable Modernist box - Prawoto has made a building that resonates with sense of place while seeming up to date. Its entrance...
...estimated cost to produce the 6,700 cards—which will be delivered to undergraduate mailboxes next year—and informational brochures is around $2,000, Usui said. The UC enlisted Harvard Media Ventures to design the card...