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...This project has more dazzling surfaces per square foot than any I've ever done," Rockwell says, although much of the territory was familiar ground to him. Trees are a recurring theme in Rockwell's work, as is every type of glass. (He collects kaleidoscopes.) He has fallen particularly hard for backlit glass, which he uses throughout the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. He likes to use familiar materials in new, more glamorous ways, weaving wood or using topiary hedges as interior walls...
...which he did the building as well as the interiors), the Chambers Hotel in New York City, he found art installations by up-and-coming artists for each room. Theming his projects also allows him room for witty variation. The colors of Mexico are evoked with vivid glass tiles in Rosa Mexicano on New York City's West Side. But the country's colorfulness is also alluded to by dozens of little white figurines doing a big Acapulco-style dive down a water-washed blue wall. On the other hand, each project is at the mercy of its theme...
...children act out their fantasies: Barbie merchandise is displayed in a life-size dream house, and an animatronic T. rex guards the dinosaur toys. One New York City Prada store, designed by the austerely hip Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, is more than half amusement arcade, with everything from glass dressing rooms that become opaque when locked to a fold-out stage for performances and movie screenings. Theme-park shopping isn't just for Disney World...
Even when designing the types of buildings he has done so many times before--restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues--he's looking for new stuff with which to build them. His offices are littered with experimental treatments of glass and fabrics. "It's exciting not to know all the answers before you start," he says. In the tentatively named Art Hotel in London, he's trying to build a glass flue above the fireplace, and glass trees. He would like to do a blow-up theatrical set, where high-pressure pumps inflate and deflate the set pieces as needed...
This isn't to suggest that some corners of the industry haven't been touched by the slumping economy. Recycling, which involves about 22% of solid waste, is sensitive to shifts in the prices for recyclable commodities like paper and glass, which have slipped of late. "A couple of years ago, I was getting $210 a ton for mixed office paper," says Butch Michitson, recycling manager for Northeastern University in Boston. "I'd be getting checks every month for $9,000 or $10,000. And I'd be walking into my boss's office saying, 'This is for trash.' Then...