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Article: The 19-star hotel: at Madrid's Hotel Puerta America, a collaboration of the world's top architects, design is always within reach.(EYE)
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- September 1, 2005
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Think of it as the ultimate class project. Nineteen of the world's preeminent architects and designers come together to design a hotel on the outskirts of Madrid. Each is given free rein over a floor or public space, and everything from the bar to the flatware to the colorfully lit parking lot boasts the stamp of a design giant. Welcome to the Hotel Puerta America, a $130 million development from the Spanish hotel group Silken that's a veritable amusement park for seen-it-all jetsetters who've long ago checked into every Ian Schrager property. Jean Nouvel did the rainbow-colored exterior and a floorful of suites; Christian Liaigre took on the restaurant; and Norman ...
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... ... opening for the 342-room Hotel Puerta America, in Madrid, with its facade ... which this hotel lacks." The Puerta America is a diversion from dull contemporary ... fleetingly fashionable." . Hotel Puerta America, 00 34 91 744 5400, www ...
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