| Sumario: | Interiors within interiors — rooms as freestanding objects within larger venues, or space-defining shells layered inside one another, or a range of other variations on the theme — recur throughout this issue. Realms within realms, they take on many different forms, reflecting a spectrum of spatial solutions and motivating desires. Sometimes interiors within interiors create theatrical, almost stage-set effects, allowing the visitor to lurk behind the scenes, as in New York City's Bohen Foundation, where LOT/EK takes the concept of discrete volumes to a flexible and free-floating extreme. At Shoebaloo in Amsterdam, Meyer en Van Schooten creates a tunneling, diminutive shop that's like a fuselage inserted into the raw, rectilinear form of an existing 19th-century building.
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