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...takes more than a body slide to impress some jaded vacationers. One swoosh down Totem Tower at the Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg, Va., and Andrew Lappas, 5, seemed bored. "I thought, Uh-oh, one run and we're done?" his father, Chris Lappas, 40, recalls with a laugh. Before long they discovered the indoor water park's longer, steeper tunnel slides--they start atop a four-story staircase and snake in and out of the cavernous hall into a plunge pool below--and Andrew was hooked. "We proceeded to go down about 25 more times," Lappas says...
...guests will recognize the Philippe Starck and Ferruccio Laviani furnishings throughout the property, yet local design talent takes most of the credit for the beautifully sparse look of the city's first truly hip hotel. Taiwanese architect Wei-Min Lee has housed Ambience in a 10-story neon-lit tower; local designer Ted Su (the man responsible for the look of Taipei's popular group of Roxy bar-clubs, as well as newer venues like TU and Wind) is the originator of the hotel's cool-as-ice interior...
...entire tower, including the individual numbers on its clocks, its turquoise cupola, and its weather vane will all be repainted...
...Dunster House tower is also in need of renovations, but McNeil said that because Eliot’s tower is the “worst case,” its construction was scheduled first. Dunster House’s tower will be restored in two years, and restoration of Lowell House’s bell tower is also “on the books,” he added...
McNeil predicted that the tower’s colors will look noticeably brighter in the fall. He said that the project aims to make the tower look as it did when it was first opened in 1931. The Cambridge Historical Society inspected the paint colors Tuesday afternoon and confirmed that they matched the original colors closely, McNeil said...