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Aquiet collection of aging factories and outdated manufacturing plants, the Keihin industrial district of Tokyo seems light-years away from the city’s eye-popping, neon-clad commercial centers.

Project Specs AGC Quality Manufacturing Training Center Tokyo, Japan Takenaka Corporation << Return to article the People Architect Takenaka Corporation 1-1-1, Shinsuna Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0075 Japan ph: +81-3-6810-5000 fx: +81-3-6660-6027 www.takanaka.co.jp www.takenaka.co.jp/designservices/index.html Project team: Hirotsugu Yamaguchi, Nobuaki Miyashita, Seiko Tanaka Lighting consultant Masahide Kakudate Lighting Architect & Associates, Inc 567 Waseda-Tsurumaki-cho, Shinjyuku, Tokyo, 162-0041 Japan ph: +81-3-5272-5597 fx: +81-3-5272-5598 www.BonBori.com MEP engineer Takenaka Corporation Project team: Takao Odajima, Yasuyuki Kanebako General contractor Takenaka Corporation   the Products Interior fluorescent lamps Prince Electronics Company www.prince-d.co.jp

Located in the heart of France’s Cantal region, the small city of Aurillac is the stuff of postcards, its surrounding landscape featuring the smoothed peaks of the extinct Massif Central volcanoes.

Project Specs Aurillac multipurpose hall Aurillac, France Brisac Gonzalez Architects << Return to article the People Architect Brisac Gonzalez 7 Bermondsey Exchange 179–181 Bermondsey Street London SE1 3UW United Kingdom ph: +44 (0)20 7378 7787 fx: +44 (0)20 7378 7796 www.brisacgonzalez.com Directors in charge: Cécile Brisac, Edgar Gonzalez Project team: Olivier Herman, Christopher Pfiffner, Margarita Bescos, Fumiko Kato, Henrike Rabe, João Baptista, Nicolas Ecrepont, Tea Puric, Afroditi Kirmi, Aitor Albo, Jean Dumas, Gerd Wetzel, Anke Schulz, Franck Quintanel Structure VP Green 115, rue du Bac 75007 Paris France Civil engineer SERALP Agence Auvergne ZAC de Pacheroux 6, avenue Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Like moonlight on the water, Lánchíd 19 captures the shimmer of the Danube coursing through Budapest.

Project Specs Homo Lumens, L'nch'd 19 hotel Budapest, Hungary L'szl' Bencz'r, P'ter Sug'r, L'szl' Kara << Return to article the People Architect László Benczúr, KBDesign http://www.benczur.com Péter Sugár http://portal.bme.hu/langs/en/default.aspx Lamella robotics engineer Hidromatic http://www.hidromatic.hu Interactive design, screenprinting Nextlab http://nextlab.hu/node/115 Glass design, screenprinting Szövetség '39 http://szovetseg39.blogspot.com Lighting system MES http://www.mes.hu   the Products Glass lamellas Rákosy Üvegipari Vállalkozás http://www.rakosyuveg.hu Chain systems, servos Hidromatic http://www.hidromatic.hu LEDs Philips Luxeon www.luxeon.com

The Nokia Theatre is ready for its closeup. It’s well suited for panoramas, too.

Project Specs Nokia Theatre Los Angeles, California ELS Architecture and Urban Design << Return to article the People Owner Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) 1100 South Flower Street Suite 3200 Los Angeles, CA 90015 www.aegworldwide.com Architect ELS Architecture and Urban Design 2040 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94704 ph: 510.549.2929 fx: 510.843.3304 www.elsarch.com Design team: Bruce Bullman, AIA, Kurt Schindler, AIA, Barry Elbasani, FAIA, Jeff Zieba, AIA, Connie Nitta Curtis, AIA Interior designer ELS/AEG Structural engineer John A. Martin & Associates 950 S. Grand Avenue 4th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90015 www.johnmartin.com Mechanical D/B engineer ACCO Engineered Systems 6265 San Fernando Road

David Adjaye divides a former warehouse floor into the domestically scaled rooms of Arario Gallery.

Project Specs BMW Welt restaurants Munich, Germany FG Stijl << Return to article the People Interior designer FG Stijl Veemkade 396 1019 HE Amsterdam Netherlands ph: +31 (0)20 419 02 64 fx: +31 (0)20 419 03 80 www.fgstijl.nl Lead designers: Colin Finnegan, Gerard Glintmeijer Photographer James Stokes +31(0)6 18522 202 General contractor Interna Group www.interna.it   the Products Cabinetry and custom woodwork Interna Group www.interna.it Leather paneling Walter Knoll Leather www.walterknoll.de Velvet paneling Lelievre Paris www.lelievre.eu Carpet Casalis  www.casalis.be Raised flooring Interna Group www.interna.it