Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from Kengo Kuma’s Tokyo National Stadium, which is now under construction, to Ian Schrager’s first Chinese hotel.

Monday

• German aviation company Lufthansa-Technik has designed a new VIP aircraft interior concept with a wellness and relaxation theme and on-board spa. Read here.

• The first design images of a new contemporary art museum in Moscow, located within a former military factory complex, have been revealed. Read here.

• Australian architecture studio FJMT have been selected to design the proposed hotel and residential tower at The Star Sydney, which will accommodate a new six star Ritz-Carlton. Read here.

• The myriad of potential applications of a spray-on protective polymer have being showcased through an unlikely medium: an online video of an indestructible watermelon. Read here.

Tuesday

• Construction work has kicked off on Tokyo’s new National Stadium, the Kengo Kuma-designed stage for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. Read here.

• Hong Kong-based global conglomerate Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited has bought the troubled US$3.5bn Bahamian mega-resort Baha Mar. Read here.

• Office OU have been announced as winners of South Korea's international competition to masterplan a National Museum Complex (NMC) in the new administrative city Sejong. Read here.

Wednesday

• Details have emerged of Bjarke Ingels Group’s latest high-profile US project; a mixed-use complex in Los Angeles’ Arts District. Read here.

• Ian Schrager – considered by many to be the founder of the boutique hotel category – has opened his first hotel in China, the Sanya Edition. Read here.

• A groundbreaking ceremony has been held for the transformation Eero Saarinen's iconic Trans World Airlines Flight Center into a 505-room hotel. Read here.

• The hotels of 2060 will self-assemble and morph from one design to another based on the votes of their guests, a leading futurist has predicted. Read here.

Thursday

• Sydney’s Australian Museum has proposed a new multi-storey extension to stretch over the top of its existing building, in the largest redevelopment in the institution’s 189-year history.Read here.

• The home stadium of US National Basketball Association NBA) franchise the Cleveland Cavaliers is being lined up to be transformed by SHoP Architects at a cost of US$140m (€131m, £110m). Read here.

• Design studios Motionspot and Ryder Architecture have been crowned winners of the Celia Thomas Prize, which promotes hotel design that is accessible for disabled people. Read here.

• A plan to develop a new Populous-designed rugby stadium in Paris has been scrapped by the French Rugby Federation following the election of its new president. Read here.

Friday

• The Ritz-Carlton, Langkawi in Malaysia, due to open in July 2017, has released details of its fishtrap-inspired spa to CLAD. Read here.

• French president Francois Hollande has officially opened an international centre in the Dordogne, designed by Snøhetta, celebrating the region’s world-famous prehistoric cave art. Read here.

• Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will reject the chance to host volleyball in an existing facility and build a new venue despite it adding to the spiralling cost of the Games. Read here.

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