For its encore, the company went urban, and opened a second citizenM last year in Amsterdam proper, with sleek and modular rooms beginning at 79 euros a night.
Goldman — a former executive producer of the New York City Opera who is the incoming president of the board of the Glimmerglass Opera and who is consulting on a new opera house in Athens — bought the place as it was, complete with the modular living room seating, and dining and accent tables by Maria Pergay.
The mPod, which looks like a large photo booth or a small, modular changing room, requires users to step inside, lock the door and strip down to their underwear for a full body scan with infrared sensors.
The device builder begins with the BUGbase unit, above, a modular computer with room for four attachments.
Should policy-makers--beyond all expectations--decide to increase the MPG's budget again, Gruss pointed out that there is the potential to reverse most of the senate's decisions: "The modular strategy leaves room to adjust the consolidation programme, should changes occur".
The "lodge," as Atco calls it, comprises four, 49-room modular dormitories.
Kindergarten and first graders occupy a 1928 school building, and second through sixth graders are housed in a 10-room modular building.
The house's best features were left alone, including the exposed cedar-paneled ceiling downstairs and the modular pattern of rooms that make up the floor plan.
The meeting room included modular couches and armchairs as well as classroom-style tables, allowing participants to break into groups.
In one living room, left, modular sofas upholstered in wool felt, by the Italian designer Paola Lenti, face a table by the architects; in the background is the undulating wood and glass skin of a conference room.
For those lucky enough to get in, help was at hand in the Satosphere the Société des Arts Technologiques' modular dome— for Boiler Room's daytime event.
