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British Land made Swann the first woman director at the 150-year-old company. It is one of Britain's largest property-investment firms, with holdings such as London's Broadgate offices and 43 Sainsbury's superstores. Swann, CEO of WH Smith, Britain's largest magazine and book retailer, brings valuable retail expertise. She is winning kudos for turning around WH Smith, which was headed for major losses when she took over in late 2003. "Kate Swann, who has the CEO experience that boards want and is a woman, is a very attractive candidate," said Constance Bagley, an expert...
...ultimately it is Rochester Park in one-north district?the city's newly minted tech and biomedical-science hub?that is Singapore's hottest dining address today. The colonial-era homes of British military officers have been transformed into retail outlets and restaurants. Try Graze, tel: (65) 6775 9000, the bistro established by Yenn Wong, owner of Hong Kong's JIA boutique hotel. And don't miss Min Jiang, tel: (65) 6774 0122, a sibling of the Sichuan restaurant of the same name at the Goodwood Park Hotel. The Ernesto Bedmar-designed interior is uncompromisingly modern, and the cuisine decidedly...
Tokyo developer Minoru Mori doesn't shy away from big projects. Coming swiftly in the wake of his successful Roppongi Hills development is the massive Omotesando Hills (www.omotesandohills.com) retail and residential complex, designed by Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect famous for his grand public buildings. Despite the plain concrete exteriors that are a staple of his work, Ando has managed to pay homage to the old apartment buildings the development has controversially replaced, with one section not only resembling the original facades, but also including a gallery of photographs of what was there before. Inside the complex, a wide spiraling...
Tokyo developer Minoru Mori doesn't shy away from big projects. Coming swiftly in the wake of his successful Roppongi Hills development is the massive Omotesando Hills omotesandohills.com retail and residential complex, designed by Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect famous for his grand public buildings. Despite the plain concrete exteriors that are a staple of his work, Ando has managed to pay homage to the old apartment buildings the development has controversially replaced, with one section not only resembling the original facades, but also including a Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel...
...attempts have been made to cast Omotesando in an eco-friendly mold (there's a barrage of greenery and free bicycle parking within), but the eye is only briefly fooled: in the end, this is an icon of big-city consumerism, and an authentic taste of Tokyo's hypermodern retail landscape...