Week's top news: Bjarke Ingels turns attention to LA, study predicts the hotel of the future and restoration of Saarinen's New York icon begins
Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from Kengo Kuma’s Tokyo National Stadium, which is now under construction, to Ian Schrager’s first Chinese hotel.
Monday
• German aviation company Lufthansa-Technik has designed a new VIP aircraft interior concept with a wellness and relaxation theme and on-board spa. Read here.
• The first design images of a new contemporary art museum in Moscow, located within a former military factory complex, have been revealed. Read here.
• Australian architecture studio FJMT have been selected to design the proposed hotel and residential tower at The Star Sydney, which will accommodate a new six star Ritz-Carlton. Read here.
• The myriad of potential applications of a spray-on protective polymer have being showcased through an unlikely medium: an online video of an indestructible watermelon. Read here.
Tuesday
• Construction work has kicked off on Tokyo’s new National Stadium, the Kengo Kuma-designed stage for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. Read here.
• Hong Kong-based global conglomerate Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited has bought the troubled US$3.5bn Bahamian mega-resort Baha Mar. Read here.
• Office OU have been announced as winners of South Korea's international competition to masterplan a National Museum Complex (NMC) in the new administrative city Sejong. Read here.
Wednesday
• Details have emerged of Bjarke Ingels Group’s latest high-profile US project; a mixed-use complex in Los Angeles’ Arts District. Read here.
• Ian Schrager – considered by many to be the founder of the boutique hotel category – has opened his first hotel in China, the Sanya Edition. Read here.
• A groundbreaking ceremony has been held for the transformation Eero Saarinen's iconic Trans World Airlines Flight Center into a 505-room hotel. Read here.
• The hotels of 2060 will self-assemble and morph from one design to another based on the votes of their guests, a leading futurist has predicted. Read here.
Thursday
• Sydney’s Australian Museum has proposed a new multi-storey extension to stretch over the top of its existing building, in the largest redevelopment in the institution’s 189-year history.Read here.
• The home stadium of US National Basketball Association NBA) franchise the Cleveland Cavaliers is being lined up to be transformed by SHoP Architects at a cost of US$140m (€131m, £110m). Read here.
• Design studios Motionspot and Ryder Architecture have been crowned winners of the Celia Thomas Prize, which promotes hotel design that is accessible for disabled people. Read here.
• A plan to develop a new Populous-designed rugby stadium in Paris has been scrapped by the French Rugby Federation following the election of its new president. Read here.
Friday
• The Ritz-Carlton, Langkawi in Malaysia, due to open in July 2017, has released details of its fishtrap-inspired spa to CLAD. Read here.
• French president Francois Hollande has officially opened an international centre in the Dordogne, designed by Snøhetta, celebrating the region’s world-famous prehistoric cave art. Read here.
• Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will reject the chance to host volleyball in an existing facility and build a new venue despite it adding to the spiralling cost of the Games. Read here.
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