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DEVELOPING A SPEC HOTEL
In a somewhat unusual approach, British developer Bondcare (Heathrow) Ltd. began designing a hotel "on spec" before finding an owner. The speculative approach, more often used in office or apartment buildings, could indicate a "change is in the air" for hotel developers, who normally team up with an operator before design begins. — Published 2002.1016
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RESTORING "MONTEZUMA CASTLE"
Over its 117-year life, Montezuma Castle, designed by the Chicago architecture firm of Burnham & Root, had been a resort hotel, a Baptist college, and a Jesuit seminary.
— Published 2002.0619
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GEOFFREY BAWA APPRECIATION
Geoffrey Bawa is Sri Lanka's most prolific architect and a master at merging disparate cultures through design. The London-educated architect has blended traditional Sri Lankan and South Indian architecture with modern. His work has had tremendous influence on architecture throughout Asia. — Published 2002.0130
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HIGH DESERT MODERN
The Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, is one of the driest deserts on earth. It is a startlingly brutal place where boiling geysers burst through mountain plains caked in salt, and jagged red rocks give way to massive sand dunes and desolate open salt flats. Extreme temperatures jolt your body and dry up your eyes and skin while dust fills your clothes. — Published 2001.1003
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HISTORIC HOTELS OF EGYPT
One of the fascinating achievements of British influence in many former colonies of the British Empire is that the past has almost been frozen in time. While the British themselves were quick to shed the garments of the Victorian tradition and embrace the modern age, the former colonies, because of either financial difficulties or a sort of nostalgia, have preserved the era. — Published 2001.0905
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ONE RAFFLES LINK
In Singapore, a city of skyscrapers, a new building by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates stands out as the city's first "groundscraper." The design of One Raffles Link nonetheless reflects a Singaporean tradition of efficient urban planning, conserving the city's precious land and allowing it to remain a garden city.
The building spans two cultures, with its ground-level colonnade providing shelter from Singapore's tropical climate and European-style rusticated stonework reminiscent of nearby colonial buildings. — Published 2001.0502
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INTERIOR DESIGN - IDENTITY IN LEBANON
"My house is practical. I thank you as I thank the railway engineer or a telephone service... but you have not touched my heart. You apply stone, wood and concrete, that is construction... ingenuity is at work.
But suddenly you have touched my heart, you have done me good, and I am happy... this is beautiful... this is architecture... art enters in." — Published 2001.0328
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POSTCARD FROM HAVANA
Dear ArchitectureWeek,
The young architect Maikel Menenioz Gonzalez was awakened by an unexpected telephone call at 1 a.m. and instructed to be ready in ten minutes for a project interview. Fidel Castro had just received word that his negotiations with the U.S. government for the return of Elian Gonzalez had been thwarted by the boy's relatives in Miami. — Published 2001.0314
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THE BUZZ AT BUILD BOSTON 2000
Switch Hotel . . . Soft Landing . . . Air Barrier . . . Future Search. These were just a few of the many new "buzzwords" floating around Boston's World Trade Center in November when some 11,000 architects and construction professionals and 350 vendors converged at the 16th annual Build Boston. — Published 2000.1206
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RITZY PRESERVATION SAVES PHILADELPHIA LANDMARK
About 97 years ago, the Girard Trust Bank commissioned the New York firm of McKim, Mead and White to construct a monumental new facility in Philadelphia near the City Hall. Bank president Effingham Morris wanted to make a dramatic statement forecasting a change in Philadelphia's center of business by having the bank modeled after the Pantheon in Rome. — Published 2000.0628
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