Housed in a new red glass and polished concrete building, all the dorms and private rooms at Base have ensuite facilities, lockers and air-con - and the girls-only Sanctuary floor offers extra creature comforts (tea in bed, champagne in the evening, Aveda shampoo).
He is best-known for his 15 years at the Cincinnati Symphony (1986-2001), where a long string of sumptuously-recorded Telarc CDs reveals a suave, polished sound building on the orchestra's strong Germanic tradition.
But getting them to where we are today, where the well-paid, well-heeled ad exec wears jeans inside a polished office building just as the guy informally selling food on the side of the road does took more historical and cultural turns.
In 1998, for example, preservationists requested that the commission consider granting landmark status to Tiffany's, the storied polished-granite building at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in Manhattan.
The company, again with Mr. Raab leading the team, also designed the Manhattan Family Courthouse on Lafayette Street, a polished black granite building that looks like two incised cubes.
The architecture seems to announce that what goes on inside the Center — the debates on policy and diplomacy, the provocative points made in its glass-panelled rooms — is as new and polished as the building itself.
The architecture seems to announce that what goes on inside the Center the debates on policy and diplomacy, the provocative points made in its glass-panelled rooms is as new and polished as the building itself.
For a first-time hardware maker, Facebook did a remarkable job of building polished devices that add new value instead of reinventing the smart home wheel.
It has taken architects in China 20 years to get the hang of building sophisticated polished skins.
It is in a well-maintained building with polished marble floors and friendly doormen, in a neighborhood more homey than chic.
