The Stanford Court is getting a $32M sprucing. Great.
The skies are blue. Even better.
Going to see Renzo Piano's sod roof in Golden Gate Park. Will report.
Frustrations with the hotel bathroom:
Why can't engineer/designers of hotel bathrooms EVER get shower nobs for warm/cold designed so operation is intuitive?!! Why do I have to use trial and error to figure out which direction is warm and which direction is cold? This is the 21st Century, fer crissssakes!
Why in a luxury hotel is it not possible to put a long flushing handle on the freaking stool so one does not have to dislocate one's shoulder to reach back to flush?!!!! Even the prudish Victorians solved this problem with a pull chain a century ago.
Help me, help me, help me, I think I'm going insane with the bathroom design. Cheap, cheap, cheap and poorly thought out too.
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When the kitchen became the centre of attention in the mid seventies it was to some extend credited to an explosion of cook books and Terence Conran?s Kitchenbook, but mostly to the fact that the kitchen became a more public place, in other words a place that deserved a guided tour?The bad room, unless so large that you could put Philippe Starck in it without him being noticed, is not that public space?yet and maybe this has something to do with the kind of design neglect that you are mentioning. Than again there are taps with inbuilt light that color the water blue when cold and red when warm?I guess that?s not what makes you choose one hotel over the other.
I can't wait for your report card on Enzo Piano's "lifted" piece of nature.
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