Word: plaza
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...This is the closest you'll come to Morocco in the region," says head chef Sezai Zorlu of Maroush, arguably the foremost of the trio. Nestled in South Jakarta's Crowne Plaza Hotel, its giant brass doors open to reveal lavish tapestries and paintings, ornate lamps, plush cushions and elaborate place settings, with virtually every item flown in from Marrakech. Most of the ingredients are imported, too. "As a matter of fact," says Sezai, "the saffron we use in our rice, lamb and chicken dishes costs more per gram than gold...
Cosslett, 52, is a general among road warriors, CEO of InterContinental Hotel Group, the outfit based in Windsor, England, that is the parent for the 148 InterContinental hostelries worldwide, as well as Holiday Inn, Staybridge Suites, Crowne Plaza and Indigo brands. And under his command IHG is invading new territory. Last year the company planted 26 more InterContinental flags, up 40%, including in Los Angeles, Red Square, Tokyo and Chengdu; Holiday Inn added 700 franchises...
...much has been made about the rational character of the Pompidou that it's easy to overlook its enduring strangeness, the climate of uneasy feeling it creates as a building disemboweled, with its intestines and even its skeleton on display. Sitting on the broad, cobblestoned (and mime-infested) plaza in front of it, it's not hard to imagine that the underground workings of the city itself have erupted upward. The Pompidou may be high tech, its exoskeleton may be a rationalist's grid, but it strikes a note of ferocious dislocations and forbidden disclosures that the Surrealists would have...
...Harvard Design School professor Alex Krieger, who said that he has “spent seven years trying to improve City Hall Plaza,” contends that none of the current back-and-forth argument will have any effect on when the new City Hall is built...
...Quinn had wanted to find workers, all he had to do was go to the fourth floor of his own Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel," says Saket Soni of the New Orleans Workers Center, explaining that Quinn's application was approved while unemployed Katrina victims were living off FEMA vouchers in his hotels...