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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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JFK Airport in New York: An old terminal soon to be converted into a hotel
Designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1962, terminal 5 became obsolete due to the growth in air traffic and more drastic security conditions, the TWA Flight Center at New York - John F. Kennedy will assume new purpose starting in 2018. Two buildings including one that is classified as a historic monument, six floors, close to 505 rooms, and 265 million dollars: even in New York, the new hotel project underway at John F. Kennedy airport has the stuff top impress. The architecture studios Lubrano Ciavarra Architects and Beyer Blinder Belle were chosen to complete this project while respecting the emblematic silhouette of the TWA Flight Center, closed since 2001. Beyer Blinder Belle was in charge of renovations at Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal and the Empire State Building lobby - and its restoration efforts at TWA Flight Center have already received the Excelsior Award for Public Architecture from the AIA New York State. Read more here Story of the Week
The next big thing in luxury travel is this company that will build you a custom temporary hotel wherever you want
Your options for picking a vacation destination are typically limited to the places where hotels and other accommodations have already been built. But the London-based luxury travel agency Black Tomato is changing that with a new offering: a service that allows you to make your next vacation spot anywhere in the world.
Called Blink, the highly personalized service provides temporary accommodations and a staff to set it all up and take it all down later. Prices range depending on the location and the length of your stay, but they can go anywhere from $10,964 a person for a three-night vacation in Morocco to $29,600 per person for a four-night trip to Bolivia.
Blink can bring five-star accommodations wherever you want to go, as long as you don't mind sleeping in a luxury tent. Here's how it works.
Black Tomato said in a press release that it can set up its temporary accommodations "anywhere in the world where we can transport the tents and materials."
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