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Christmas and the New Year is one of the most anticipated and fraught times of the year for
everyone, especially if you are a busy designer or architect securing deals before the end of the
year and planning for 2012.
With this in mind we asked notable figures from the interior and design world to share their plans
for Christmas the New Year ahead.
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| RADISSON BLU AQUA HOTEL CHICAGO |
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The Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago
opened in November unveiling the first look
at the design vision for the upper-upscale
Radisson Blu brand in the United States.
The flagship hotel is located on the first 18
floors of the 81-storey Aqua Tower, recently
named 'Skyscraper of the Year' by Emporis.
MacArthur Genius design award honouree
Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects
designed the architecturally acclaimed
Chicago icon.
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| BBC NORTH AT MEDIACITYUK, SALFORD, UK BY ID:SR |
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| Taking the lead from the vibrancy of shared
spaces and amenities found in cities, BBC
North has been designed to capture this
vibrancy, offering more choice in less space.
Amenity-centric rather than desk-centric, the
workplace supports agile working across a
variety of desirable work settings tailored to
a range of activities, whether holding a team
meeting, making a phone call, editing
content, having an informal catch up,
tweeting or blogging. |
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| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, BY FOSTER & PARTNERS |
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| The fifty-three galleries in the new Art of the
Americas Wing are arranged chronologically
over four levels, rising from Native American
and seventeenth-century works to modern
art on the top floor. From the outset, the
design of the gallery spaces allowed for
flexibility: services could be moved to
accommodate large objects; or a glazed
panel in the facade aligned with the window
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| PKO BANK POLSKI BY ROBERT MAJKUT DESIGN STUDIO |
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Robert Majkut Design studio, in cooperation
with PKO Bank Polski, have developed a
project for private banking, offered to a
selected group of the Bank's clients.
The designer's task was to create a concept
of interior design corresponding to the
prestigious offer of the Bank as well as
being consistent with previously elaborated
visual identification of PKO Bank Polski
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| THE CHATEAU HAUTEVILLE BY JORGE CAÑETE |
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Walking through the gate of this castle
located close to Vevey feels like going back
in time and entering somewhere straight out
of a fairy tale.
The castle, built in 1760 in the purest style of
the 18th century with its horse shoe shaped
structure and 'trompe-l'oeil' facades, could
not fail to fascinate Jorge Cañete, an interior
designer celebrated for his signature style
situated between memory and modernity
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| LA BIRRERIA BY TPG ARCHITECTURE |
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| New York, NY (July 2011) Another
successful collaboration between TPG
Architecture and the Batali & Bastianich
Hospitality Group, La Birreria is a wildly
popular addition to New York's food and
drink scene. La Birreria is a craft brewery
and restaurant that covers 6,000 square feet
on the 14th and 15th floors of the historic
Toy Building.
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| WELCOME TO INSIDE! |
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Welcome to the Christmas issue of
INSIDE.
And we are positively bursting with
festive cheer!
Giselle Mannering from dehasse
interior design, shows us last minute
Christmas decoration ideas, Amy
Knight interviews Paul Symes about his
absolutely fabulous windows for
Fortnum and Mason, and notable
figures from the world of interior design
share their plans for Christmas and the
New Year.
We've had a great year at WAN
Interiors + Design, with over 300 entries
to our awards and stunning interior and
design projects from around the world.
To thank our award jurors for their
support, we invited forty-four judges to
join the WAN Team for dinner at the
OXO Tower, located on the South Bank
of the Thames in London. We had a
great evening exchanging tales of
heated debates over award shortlists,
and shared stories about winning
projects that have led to unexpected
opportunities for many of our architects
and designers.
On behalf of the WAN Interiors +
Design team, that just leaves me to
wish you all a very happy Christmas
and successful 2012.
See you next year.
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| CHRISTMAS WITH A
TWIST |
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Simple but glamorous Christmas decorations
with a twist, have been created to inject some
sophistication and a dash of style for the
festive season.
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SNAPSHOT:
SHOWTIME AT FORTNUM
& MASON |
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Over the past few weeks, Fortnum & Mason's
creative director Paul Symes has been
beavering away from dusk 'til dawn on the
formation of this year's show-stopping
Christmas window display - and somehow still
found time to join the WAN Retail Interiors jury
panel.
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COMMENT:
HOTELS RIDE OUT
RECESSION |
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The Boutique Hotel phenomenon - and its
growing sub-category of budget boutique
properties - is helping to cushion the travel and
hospitality sector from the worst effects of the
worldwide recession, according to acclaimed
architecture and design practice Conran and
Partners.
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