U2 frontman Bono wants to spend a staggering $237.2 million turning thehotel he owns in his native Dublin into a spectacular city resort. Bono in partnership with The Edge bought the 156 year old ClarenceHotel in...
James Westcott writes on Abu Dhabi's efforts to replace their oil economy with culture:"In a corner of a wing, just off an atrium, of the enormous and oppressively luxurious Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, there’s an...
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A giant glass skylight fell from eight stories up at an Embassy Suites hotel in Cockeysville, Md.-- amazingly, nobody was hurt."WJZ) COCKEYSVILLE, Md. Investigators are back on the scene one day after the glass skylight breaks loose and falls eight stories into a hotel in...
"It is a grand building, Stauffer, and has a large atrium as its entranceway that is punctuated with a helix staircase. This atrium poses something of a problem, despite its grandeur; it echoes. When sitting at any...
"I like that not all Tim Hortons are the same. The one at Princess and Clergy is textbook Kingston - decked out in limestone. There’s one in my town in the Okanagan that’s applicably desert themed. The...
"The quiet, sunny atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building was transformed into a chaotic scene yesterday when dozens of war protesters filed into the lobby, formed a prayer circle, shouted Scripture and eventually were arrested as Senate staffers hung over railings and...