Not everything stays in Vegas
Fireworks go off seconds before the implosion of the Stardust hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. It was imploded to pave the way for Boyd Gaming Corp.’s $4.4 billion mega resort complex, Echelon Place. If it isn’t steel or concrete, it’s being removed from the shuttered Stardust hotel tower.
Songjiang Hotel, Shanghai
Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China. Its stunning concept designs inspired by the natural water and landscape features of the quarry captured the imagination of judges to quash competition from two other international firms.
The Expocenter Project
Closely located to the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), the largest investment and construction project in Russia, and Europe as a whole, the Expocenter Project offers the city a new exposition venue, hotel, and residential development by world famous architect Zaha Hadid.
Four Season Opens on Island in Thailand
Luxury hotelier Four Seasons has opened its 74th property world wide—this one on Koh Samui island in Thailand. Featuring 60 villas surrounded by 88 pools, Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, Thailand is a remote waterfront retreat, built into the landscape of the Laem Yai peninsula, and invisible from the sea. Four Seasons also has resorts [...]
