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Improvise and Adapt

by Sophie Kalkreuth
09 Sep 2019

How designers George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg keep things fresh.

In many ways The Four Seasons Burj Alshaya in Kuwait is everything you’d expect from a luxury hotel in the Middle East. The 700,000-sq-ft property, which forms part of a new mixed-use complex by Gensler, is nothing short of monumental. In the lobby, textured limestone walls stretch to a ceiling nearly 30ft in height, and