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Article: Profile: Isay Weinfeld.(Occupation overview)(Interview)
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- Design Week
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- May 4, 2006
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Celebrity villas, office buildings, clubs, hotels and shops - Isay Weinfeld has tried his hand at them all. Bethan Ryder talks to the Brazilian architect, who hates to repeat himself, as his first London project is about to open
If Brazil do it yet again and win this summer's FIFA World Cup, exuberant Brazilians in London will have somewhere to celebrate in style. Due to open in July, on the former site of Isola in Knightsbridge, is a new Brazilian restaurant, Mocoto (DW 27 April). A venue of two halves, it will feature a buzzing boteco, or cafe-bar, on the ground floor, with an elegant 112-cover restaurant below. Footie aside, Rio-de-Janeiro-born proprietor ...