We developed a 3D model in collaboration with Starck for the SLS Hotels famous giant silver duck sculpture. We produced a 3D print at 4" tall to create an iconic gift for hotel patrons. The 3D print was then replicated by one of our manufacturers in order to fulfill larger orders. The 10'-0" sculpture is made of Fibre-Reinforced Plastic, and an aluminum structure. The duck sculpture is situated on the pool deck watching over the pool as the cabanas make for a private hideaway. The hotel has three restaurants that are well-known around the world: The Bazaar, Hyde Beach and Katsuya.

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Nature is decisively seen as separate from human. Most earlier ideas of nature had included, in an integral way, ideas of human nature. But now nature, increasingly, is ‘out there’, and it’s natural to reshape it to a dominant need, without having to consider very deeply what this reshaping might do to the human and nature.

In our complex dealings with the physical world, we find it very difficult to recognize all the products of our own activities. We recognize some of the products, and call other by-products; but slagheap is as real a product as the coal, just as the river stinking with sewage and detergent is as much our product as the reservoir. The enclosed and fertile land is our product, but so are the waste moors from which the poor cultivators were cleared, to leave what can be seen as an empty nature.

Capitalism, of course, has relied on the terms of domination and exploitation; imperialism, in conquest, has similarly seen both men and physical products as raw material. But it is a measure of how far we have to go that socialists also still talk of the conquest of nature, which in any real terms will always include the conquest, the domination or the exploitation of some men by others. If we alienate the living processes of which we are a part, we end, though unequally, by alienating ourselves.

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Moho is a new concept in the long-standing tradition of world-class Miami hotel design. Its dynamic form expresses the grand sense of luxury and theatricality that popularized Miami hotels in a kit-of-parts assembly that efficiently responds to contextual, programmatic and environmental variables. In this way, the ability to adapt and respond—to cater to each guest—is articulated as its primary function.

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