Built on the site of the 19th-century Gaiety Theater, the new-build ME Hotel integrates into London’s Theatreland with a dramatic design. “The new scheme repairs the urban grain and restores a little lost glamour to the heart of the West End,” says Giles Robinson, partner of London-based Foster + Partners…” See more about the ME Hotel in London on Hospitality Design at http://goo.gl/tl5oi

Built on the site of the 19th-century Gaiety Theater, the new-build ME Hotel integrates into London’s Theatreland with a dramatic design.

“The new scheme repairs the urban grain and restores a little lost glamour to the heart of the West End,” says Giles Robinson, partner of London-based Foster + Partners…”

See more about the ME Hotel in London on Hospitality Design at http://goo.gl/tl5oi

(via Town Square Initiative: New York - Urban Planning and Design - Gensler)

The Town Square Initiative was a yearlong volunteer effort in which Gensler designers set out to unearth and re-imagine unexpected open space in cities around the globe. All 43 Gensler offices were invited to participate in the conceptual project, in which we challenged our designers to identify open space in the city and reimagine it as a town square.

On May 29, 2013 a distinguished jury of notable professionals, academics, and public officials met to decide the competition winners. This single-stage international design ideas competition intends to catalyze iconic, sustainable, and functional design for representative corridors in Chicago’s planned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. (via Competition: 2013 Burnham Prize - Chicago Architectural Club)