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FOR LEISURE ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, INVESTORS & DEVELOPERS

Daniel Libeskind Christoph Ingenhoven Marcel Wanders Enzo Enea

Bjarke Ingels photographed for CLAD at the Lego House, starts p103 Billund, Denmark on 27 September 2017 On life, Lego and how the BIG team is giving form to the future Let’s create something that changes someone.

Montréal / Dubai / Singapore At the Top, Burj Khalifa, Dubai Creating experiences that help visitors understand their world differently

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Architectural Design Space Planning Interior Design FF&E Selection Brand Identity

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Blockchain will revolutionise land and property ownership and unlock development opportunities

Blockchain will drive a building boom

Property-based wealth is concentrated in countries with robust laws relating to the ownership of assets, making it impossible for investors to work in large parts of the world. However, that situation will start to change as land registries adopt Blockchain

magine buying property, then going out for the day and SCANRAIL1/SHUTTERSTOCK coming back to find someone else has moved in and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. I Having the right and opportunity to own land and property is a privilege mainly taken for granted by those who have it. However, the World Bank estimates that 70 per cent of the global population lacks access to land or property titling, meaning they could ‘buy’ land or property, only to lose it to someone else, with no way to prove their claim. This situation restricts opportunity, mobility and individual liberty – people have to literally stay on their land the whole time to defend their ownership – and it makes economic growth, inbound investment and real-estate development impossible. Having a legal description of an asset and a watertight record of its ownership is a huge undertaking which is beyond the means of many governments in the third world. The Swedish land registry is trialling Blockchain But now government land registries are beginning to test Blockchain technology as a Investors will not the Scottish founder of TechCrunch, used a way of recording property transactions – a move only be able to make US-based real-estate start-up called Propy to which could herald an unprecedented disruption investments safely, make the purchase using cryptocurrency. of the asset ownership industry. but also there’ll be These are early skirmishes with the Blockchain – the technology which technology, but as Blockchain comes on stream underpins Bitcoin – creates a digital registry a demand for the as an enabler of transactions and is adopted that can’t be tampered with, permanently businesses they build by governments, we’ll see an acceleration of enshrining agreements. Putting transac- growth in countries that have been out of reach tions on a blockchain makes them almost impossible to forge. to investors because there’s been no way to operate in them. The Swedish government’s land registry, working with This will power the development of more wealthy economies, consultancy Kairos Future, is trailblazing by trialling Blockchain which will in turn create new markets, meaning investors will to record property transactions, saying the system will eliminate not only be able to make investments safely, but also that there paperwork, speed up the registration process and reduce fraud. will be a demand for the businesses that they build. Last month, an apartment in Kiev became the world’s first property to be sold using a blockchain when Michael Arrington, Liz Terry, editor, CLAD @elizterry

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Daniel Libeskind shares his plans

Bjarke Ingels introduces his team of BIGsters

5 Editor's letter 36 Daniel Libeskind 112 Blockchain will revolutionise The Polish-American architect the way we buy and sell land on how his buildings explore and property says Liz Terry memory and identity

12 CLAD people 44 Christoph Ingenhoven Manuelle Gautrand wins the How Ingenhoven’s experience as 2017 European Prize, Antonio a guest informed the design of

PHOTO: FLEMMING LEITORP PHOTO: Cruz speaks out about Atletico the Lanserhof medical spas Madrid’s new stadium and Joyce Wang on her latest project 52 Enzo Enea On saving trees, working with Zaha 20 CLAD news Hadid and changing the face of

32 Burgenstock Resort 60 Living well

BIG CEO Sheela Maini Søgaard The famed Lake Lucerne hotel The US wellness communities reopens following a €480m revamp providing a new model for living

6 CLADGLOBAL.COM CLADmag 2017 ISSUE 4 66 52 Enzo Enea refl ects on working with Zaha Hadid Marcel Wanders talks about designing for major brands

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PHOTO: © PETER COOK Christoph Ingenhoven on medical spa design

We explore how designers are transforming theatres

66 Marcel Wanders The Dutch designer embraces chaos 116 The BIG team Meet the partners who’ve 74 Theatre design trends p103 helped BIG to become a The changing face of theatre design leading global practice

80 Living for the moment 116 Finn Norkjaer Celebrating ephemeral architecture 104 Bjarke Ingels 117 Thomas Christoff ersen The BIG founder talks about Lego 118 Andreas Klok Pedersen 88 Flying high House, Mars Science City and the 119 Kai-Uwe Bergmann Reviewing the Mercedes Benz Stadium role of his team in BIG’s success 120 David Zahle 121 Jakob Lange 94 Astana Expo review 112 Sheela Maini Søgaard 122 Daniel Sundlin A look back at the best pavilions BIG’s CEO refl ects on the challenges 123 Beat Schenk of the fi rm’s growth, and addressing 124 Brian Yang 128 CLADkit the gender balance at the top 125 Jakob Sand Product design innovation

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