The Park Hotel Hyderabad - High Performance Design with local culture

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), the New York-based architectural firm, has recently completed The Park Hotel Hyderabad, the flagship hotel for The Park Hotel Group. This 531,550-square-foot, 270-room hotel infuses a modern, sustainable design with the local craft traditions, and is influenced by the region’s reputation as a center for the design and production of gemstones and textiles. Roger Duffy, SOM’s Partner in Charge of the project,...

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Sadhguru's Today's Message - 18.02.13

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Sadhguru's Today's Message - 16.02.2013

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Mystic Chalet Interiors

                A chalet is a type of building or house, originally from Europe, made of wood, with a heavy, gently sloping roof with wide, well-supported eaves set at right angles to the front of the house. However, the modern version of a chalet is equally interesting, so here are some design inspirations of a modern chalet with amazing concepts reflecting elegance and mystic ambience.  The...

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Designing with Black or Dark Gray as dominant colors

Why is it that some spaces look gorgeous and elegant with a predominance of darker colors while others look drab, cold, too small or ‘too dark’, more than anything else? There following are several of the key factors to consider when using black or dark colors in designing a space: 1) Size The space needs to be large enough to augment the dark colors with other design elements.  If the room is too small it will feel even...

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Amazing campus of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Adjacent to the Seattle Center and its towering Space Needle, a sprawling asphalt parking lot covered fertile ground that once had a rich history. The 12-acre site had been a clearing in a forest with a wetland that provided respite for migratory waterfowl traveling the Pacific Flyway; it had also been a meadow where Native Americans held community potlatch ceremonies. Over the years, the site was built up to house, at different times,...

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An Oasis at the Sahara

  One year after it closed, can Sahara site become a symbol of Las Vegas’ rebound? It's only fitting that a developer is planning a new oasis for Las Vegas to replace a project called the Sahara. The developer SBE announced today the groundbreaking for SLS Las Vegas, a new $415 million hotel and casino remodeling project being undertaken by Philippe Starck and Gensler. The development is an adaptive reuse of the Sahara, a casino...

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