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http www.idsa.org idea awards gallery 2008 award details.asp id 35918392 coach to open flagship store in nagoya japan . all business . december 16 2004 coach reopens expands flagship store in new york . all business . november 21 2005 . fly fly away interior design . november 1 2001 . special coverage after the hurricanes architectural record . retrieved march 16 2009 . after the flood building on higher ground . architectural record . retrieved on march 16 2009 . steelcase product page citibank interactive display wkem . retrieved march 16 2009 . 2008 international design excellence awards idsa & business week . retrieved march 16 2009 . work starts on beach walk project honoluluadvertiser.com . saturday march 8 2008 . another green retail center for waikiki star bulletin . january 14 2009 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title eight inc. & oldid 699674896 categories design companies of the united statesarchitecture firms of the united statesarchitecture firms of the united kingdomhidden categories wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from october 2014articles with a promotional tone from october 2012all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa ol portugu s edit links this page was last modified on 13 january 2016 at 19 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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