Word: interiorities
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...week has gone by in which the kingdom's newspapers haven't carried sensational headlines about the latest police shoot-out with an al-Qaeda cell or the discovery of an illicit stash of arms and explosives. The streets are blocked by police checkpoints. In an unprecedented step, the Interior Ministry has published the names and photos of al-Qaeda suspects at large, appealing to the public to turn them in. Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto ruler, has declared his own war on terrorism. The kingdom's highest religious authority has issued a declaration backing him. Saudi spokesmen claim...
...this for real? Is this the same Saudi Arabia that, despite plain evidence, questioned for months the fact that 15 of the 9/11 hijackers were its citizens? The kingdom whose Interior Minister implied that the attacks on the U.S. were the work of "Zionists"? The country whose petrodollars have long funded terrorist groups? Americans, plainly, have misgivings about the Saudi kingdom, doubts that only grew when the Bush Administration, led by a President cozier than most to Riyadh, blacked out 28 pages dealing with Saudi Arabia from Congress's official report on Sept. 11, producing the smell of a cover...
...site of the construction is gated off and covered with a large amount of scaffolding, which is in turn covered with white plastic sheets. Part of the building’s interior is visible and it is full of scaffolding...
...current "isms." It toyed with deconstructivism in early designs, such as the steel cloud Rashid proposed as a gateway for Los Angeles in 1988. (The cloud registers the heaviness of the traffic and converts it into music.) The firm has also flirted with folded geometry, designing a store interior for Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele in New York City that's both chunky and smooth, as if carved out of ice that's melting and setting the clothes afloat...
...that all the existing cafés were a bit banal, and that if you put together good design, good marketing, a good location and some hard work, you would have a 'cocktail explosif,'" says Jean-Louis. The detonator was an unknown designer named Philippe Starck, who modeled the interior after the railroad station in Budapest. Kaboom! Before long, Starck was a star and Café Costes was taking in five times as much money as it had before his makeover. The brothers have been cloning versions of Café Costes ever since. The formula that the Costes have applied...