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Beyond cutting down waste, says Colangelo, the hospital also attempts to wield the "power of aesthetics to heal," with musical performances, a koi pond filled with 70 koi in the atrium, a "healing garden" and a nursing floor that wraps around a waterfall and patio. All patient rooms also have large windows that provide views of nature and lots of natural light - which cuts electricity costs and is associated with high staff morale and better patient outcomes. "Our green efforts are done under the premise that we have two patients, the environment and the ill patient," says Colangelo...
...Store, it makes it much harder for new apps to be discovered, some developers say. Brandon Bogle, an engineer and a co-founder of the Blimp Pilots - an ad hoc group of iPhone-app creators, who are otherwise employed as game developers - said its hit app Koi Pond, which sold 600,000 copies, was simply in the right place at the right time. "We were lucky enough to get in on day one, when people could find us. There are so many good apps for the iPhone, the problem is that now it's so hard for them to rise...
...either end, 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...
...mammoth new club in Plaza Senayan. Senayan City has Premiere, a live-music bar attached to the Senayan Studio XXI cinema. Next-day hangover cures can be easily found. The malls abound with popular chain restaurants like Waroeng Kita, or you could try Senayan City's Crystal Lagoon, a koi pond surrounded by international eateries. Staying in the Senayan bubble may not be the conventional tourist choice, but at least the only thing keeping you out late will be your own volition and not a traffic holdup...
Basketball is slowly creeping into the culture. Several recent Bollywood blockbusters have featured basketball: in Koi ... Mil Gaya (I Have Found Someone), aliens visit the nerdy hero and give him Jordanesque abilities. Once aliens like your sport, you have arrived. Indian cell-phone carriers have featured kids shooting hoops in recent TV spots. "As a business opportunity, the potential is huge," says Anil Kumar, president of SportzIndia Management, a marketing and consulting firm. The key for the NBA, Kumar insists, is TV saturation. "Cricket on the small screen? It's impossible to see the ball. You have to do replays...