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ON THE COVER An ancient thermal spring is part of Terme di Saturnia, a 101-year-old hotel, golf, and spa resort in Italy, recently restored and renovated by London firm THDP. Photography: Giorgio Baroni.
features 108 LEARNING IS ALL A ROUND by Rebecca Dalzell
For a kindergarten school in central Vietnam, Laboratory for Visionary Architecture integrated organic nature-inspired forms. 116 FAIR EXCHANGE by Fiona Wilson
A landmarked telephone company building in Japan is transformed into part of the Ace Hotel Kyoto by Kengo Kuma & Associates and Commune Design. 126 BOOKS, BOATS, AND PHILOSOPHY by Rebecca Lo
Wutopia Lab redefines the contemporary library with nautical and Taoist twists at the Guangzhou, China, headquarters of ecommerce company Vipshop.
134 MASTER CLASS by Edie Cohen
An architecture and design connoisseur turns to veterans Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and the Wiseman Group for a second home in Truckee, California. 142 MOMENTS OF CLARITY by Annie Block
Wellness centers embodying tranquil environments, cleansing waters, and natural materials encourage inner harmony and serenity. 150 SPECIAL EFFECTS by Laura Fisher Kaiser
Gensler draws on classic silver-screen glamour—and modern movie technology—for the makeover of the Motion Picture Association headquarters in Washington.
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walkthrough 45 SKY HIGH by Georgina McWhirter
100 giants 53 FINDING OUR WAY by Mike Zimmerman
departments 21 HEADLINERS 27 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block, Peter Webster, and Fred A. Bernstein 38 PINUPS by Rebecca Thienes 79 MARKET by Rebecca Thienes, Wilson Barlow, Colleen Curry, and Georgina McWhirter 97 DESIGN INSIDER A Complex Tapestry by Jen Renzi
At once progressive and timeless, textile legend Jack Lenor Larsen’s design vision is enduring. 103 CENTERFOLD Forest of Light by Colleen Curry
Aurelien Chen’s shimmering treeinspired pavilion draws visitors to the Dragon Mountain Natural Site on the China coast. 158 BOOKS by Stanley Abercrombie 160 CONTACTS
AURELIEN CHEN
163 INTERVENTION by Wilson Barlow
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PHOTOGRAPHY TREPAL PHOTOGRAPHY/CLEVELAND CAVALIERS
ROCKET MORTGAGE FIELDHOUSE ARENA, CLEVELAND, OH ARCHITECT GENSLER // GENERAL CONTRACTOR WHITING TURNER BUILT BY EVENTSCAPE, SEPTEMBER 2019
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e d i t o r ’s welcome
hope ahead With a tick-tock, tick-tock ever so loud...our February 2021 issue is here! This is not only one more effort of which we are very proud but also another edition devised, produced, designed, and assembled entirely at home—working our level best—in this most extraordinary moment. To be sure, these are heartrending times, with the pandemic now resurging throughout the nation, and its daily death toll amounting to that of 9/11. These are also challenging times, given the naked attempt to overthrow democracy we just witnessed at the Capitol in Washington. And finally, these are heady times, with a brand-new—and eager-totake-over—administration, which at least assures safe and experienced hands in all the wheelhouses of the executive branch. With the help of no small amount of prayer (and wellcrossed fingers to boot!) the Four Horsemen of 2020— hate, ignorance, incompetence, and strife—are on their speedy way to the landfill. A new season of hope is upon us. Along with welcoming a true American response to adversity, our know-how once again unleashed, I am looking forward to the bountiful harvest of ideas for the future that will follow our national reengagement. As card-carrying agents of all that is good, we in the design industry are chomping at the bit, raring to be front and center of constructing that better tomorrow. And we at Interior Design are stepping forward just as passionately, contributing our own ideas for that new future (cue the 100 Giants research, with abundant thought leader ship, in the following pages). We have been mercilessly tried. We have overcome. Let us all move ahead. Godspeed, xoxo
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