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Sound of Rain, Yakushima Island, Japan,

A proposal envisioned by Australian architect Steven Chu,

Winner of NOT A HOTEL 2026 design competition.

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NOT A HOTEL announces Sound of Rain as the winner of its 2026 design competition, a proposal envisioned by Australian architect Steven Chu of Artefact Architects. The boutique hotel, with its bowl-like rooftop, is set to rise on Yakushima, a forested island off the southern coast of Kyushu, Japan. Conceived for a UNESCO World Heritage landscape shaped by constant precipitation, the project begins with a simple premise: rain is a condition that defines how architecture is formed, inhabited, and understood.   

The competition called for a hybrid between private residence and hospitality, asking architects under 40 to engage directly with Yakushima’s terrain. Chu’s response treats rainfall as a spatial driver. Rather than resisting the island’s climate, the design accepts it as a steady presence, allowing water to guide both form and experience across the site -- via designboom

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Earl D. Shaw

Earl did many things in his career, including collaborating with Steven Chu (Nobel Laureate, Physics). I'm not the best source of information about Earl's scientific career. His son Alan Shaw may have more information.

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The Twisted Legacy of William Shockley

Perhaps No Other Nobel Laureate Had a Greater Impact on California's Industrial Stature Than the Man Who Brought the Silicon to Silicon Valley. So How Did He End Up an Object of Worldwide Scorn? BY MICHAEL A. HILTZIK DEC. 2, 2001 12 AM PT

Racism in Physics

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Tackling the grand challenges – Physics World

Nobel laureate Steven Chu from Stanford University talks about his successes as energy secretary and tells Richard Blaustein how the US can collaborate in a competitive environment

Are you optimistic for the future?

I am hopeful that things will get better and I see more smart people recognizing the need to solve problems around climate change.

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To start, you should allow people to fail. The arpa-e premise is exactly that. But you should also teach people to fail quickly. To assess quickly whether an idea has a chance of working, you need to test the most crucial “go or no-go” questions as soon as possible. If things are not going to work, move on. Funding agencies need to have the courage to say, “We won’t hold it against you if you fail because you tried something daring.” In arpa-e, we expected nine out of ten projects to fail. Once it is clear that the mile stones are not being met, we didn’t keep funding the project.

Steven Chu

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Great people try to hire people better than they are, people who have the potential to surpass them. They don’t hire people to be assistants–they seek protégés. The very best people aren’t insecure–or at least they are less insecure. They want the very best people around them. Second-tier people are more drawn to people who think and act like them. Radical thinkers carry more risk and are, by definition, not widely recognized. In short, A’s hire A’s, and B’s hire C’s. I see this pattern in industry, in government, and in academia.

Steven Chu

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When I started there (Bell Labs), my department head told me to spend my first six months in the library and to talk to people before deciding what to do. A year later, during my first performance review, he chided me to be content with nothing less than starting a new field. I was a cheeky kid at that time and said, “I would love to start a new field. Can you give me a hint as to which field I should start?”

Steven Chu