Sega's new accelerator will be the PowerVR, designed by VideoLogic, a small British chip design studio, and produced by Japan's NEC Corp.

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Other projects for the Culture District include a performing arts centre designed by Zaha Hadid, a Baghdad-born British woman, and a maritime museum by Japan's Tadao Ando.

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Travelers on a design quest are willing to go to great lengths to find a place NO ONE has been to (at least no one they know) in order to experience the thrill of sleeping in a home designed by James Turrell or retreat to an island peppered with the works of Tadao Ando in remotest Japan (see: Naoshima Island).

FORBES: Chiloe: Edgy Design on the Edge of the Earth in Chile