During a buyout, the hotel is closed off to anyone that is not a guest of the group, and all amenities (including restaurants, lounges, spa and meeting spaces) are exclusive to the party.

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Priced more affordably than other full-service hotels, which include a restaurant and meeting spaces, the fusion of IKEA and Pottery Barn designs will appeal to business guests, artsy types and trendy baby boomers alike.

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The galleries have been inserted into a grand edifice of classrooms, a library, an auditorium, offices, conservation facilities, indoor and outdoor meeting spaces, and an atrium planted with trees and hanging vines.

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Power players reserve its 48 executive suites and plentiful meeting spaces.

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When Gaita Baikiao finished his doctorate in 1977 at Universitas Urbaniana in Rome, having studied social anthropology among other studies, he came back to Kenya and found that Njurinceke was dying, and the meeting spaces reserved for the elders were about to be alienated by land-grabbers because the organisation had no certificate of registration.

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You are seeing more open meeting spaces, lounge furniture near circulation spaces and that type of thing.

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In room spa treatments, a fitness center and intimate, but no-less world-class, meeting spaces are some of the other offerings.

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Companies working out of the Foundry also take advantage of various shared tools and spaces that Sandbox provides, including in-house specialists, meeting rooms, and more.

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Office spaces will become more like meeting places where mobile workers occasionally gather, and senior leaders will come out of their offices to engage more closely with workers.

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