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[Participants] An evening at the David H. Koch Theater offers a return to a very particular kind of New York glamour: discreet, sophisticated and deeply tied to the city’s cultural identity. Located within Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, this modernist Manhattan landmark, designed by Philip Johnson and inaugurated in 1964 as the home of New York City Ballet, retains a restrained elegance in its monumental staircases, travertine surfaces and luminous chandeliers, elements that enhance the theatrical experience without ever overshadowing it.

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[News] Gensler has unveiled renderings for Thistle Data Center Campus, a large-scale data centre in Arizona developed for Menlo Digital. The project will occupy the former site of a call centre and will consist of five buildings with a capacity of between 36 and 72 megawatts, set across a campus of more than 90,000 square metres.

The proposal aims to go beyond purely technological infrastructure. With a facade of weathering steel, textured concrete and glazed entrance areas, the studio envisions a building that can better integrate into Arizona’s arid landscape while bringing a more considered urban presence to an industrial area currently dominated by surface parking.

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[News] California studio Johnston Marklee has completed Ray Phoenix, a 26-storey residential building located in Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row Arts District, just outside the city’s downtown area. Designed in partnership with Lamar Johnson Collaborative, the project includes 401 apartments and aims to make art, architecture and design more accessible to the local community through a contemporary residential concept.

The building is composed of a slim tower set on a wider rectangular base, which contains parking levels and shared amenities, topped by a pool deck. Its mint green metal facade, informed by Arizona’s desert landscape, creates a distinctive architectural gesture designed to both complement its surroundings and stand out within the Phoenix skyline.

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