New luxury hotel brand launches out of London. An ambitious plan of glh (Global Hotel Company) hopes to put the squeeze on well-established luxury brands like the Mandarin Oriental, the Ritz-Carlton, and The Four Seasons. The London-based global hotel subsidiary of the Singapore-listed GuocoLeisure Group, announced the launch of a new luxury hotel and private … Read more
Pasona Urban Farm with a vertical farm inside and out. Kono Designs, the architecture firm behind the largest urban farm in Japan, hopes that 15,000 square foot corporate office building with a double skinned green facade will make urbanites reconsider agriculture and embrace this new design trend. 20% of the Tokyo based recruitment agency Pasona … Read more
Most expensive hotel suite in New York costs $45,000 a night. A jaw-dropping $40,000—that’s what it will cost visitors to stay overnight in New York City’s most expensive hotel suite this September. NewYorkHotels.org has just published a new report that ranks the 10 costliest hotel suites in Manhattan. In coming up with the rankings, the … Read more
From water conservation and energy saving to staff action teams and even beehives, it has taken more than a year to ensure that this luxury hotel is in line with the demanding standards of the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) – an European Community management tool designed to improve the environmental performance of organisations … Read more
Microsoft announced its intent to purchase Nokia’s mobile phone business unit. Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents and mapping services. Microsoft Corporation and Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation Nokia announced that the companies have decided to enter into a transaction whereby Microsoft will purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices … Read more
Man-made aerosols and industrial pollution may have impacted the number of Atlantic hurricanes, according to a new research from the Met Office (UK’s National Weather Service) published in Nature Geoscience. Aerosols may have suppressed the number of Atlantic hurricanes over the 20th Century and even controlled the decade- to-decade changes in the number of hurricanes. … Read more