The way the ceiling is moulded and the way the interior is softly lit with LED spotlights almost suggest a plane cabin rather than a bus.
However, away from the media and diplomatic spotlights, the state of Queensland has been undergoing radical political reform and experiencing unprecedented threats to civil liberties.
Rooms from €285 to €795, +33 1 4441 9900, l-hotel.com Decked out in flightcase furniture and stage spotlights, the hotel has been designed to house touring bands in familiar surroundings.
And now he was preparing to stand under spotlights and bow his head before them.
The large show now open in Italy, "Thermal Deco", spotlights objects designed by Galileo Chini between 1912 and 1923 for the Berzieri thermal baths at Salsomaggiore.
THE latest issue of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine, spotlights Michel Houellebecq, author of a new novel that imagines the Islamisation of France and then the European Union.
Amid swirling dry ice and roving spotlights, a famous troupe called The Sex Bomb Dancers gyrated and squirmed; the Philippines' best-known comedian performed a stand-up routine, and assorted movie and television stars rallied the cheering crowd of thousands.
After nightfall, he made a break for it, under the spotlights set up by his captors.
Singers and musicians, baking under spotlights, are even more uncomfortable; most orchestras still insist that men players wear dinner jackets and bow ties, even when performing in a microclimate that resembles the Amazonian rainforest.
It spotlights the gem that was later to give the style its name.
A few days later, police shot dead Abdul Numan Haider, a Melbourne teenager who was an apparent terror suspect, after he attacked two officers with a knife.The dramas have shone media spotlights on Australia's Muslims, many located in the outer suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne.
