"The battered facade's ruinlike quality was retained and highlighted with illumination. A new glass-block and steel storefront was constructed, recessed and oblique to the original facade and the new entrance. The result is a mysterious, layered entryway made up of light and shadows , old and new, past and present." -- Nayana Currimbhoy

"The nightclub under discussion is Club Cabool, indeed situated in a visibly age-ravaged building shell that acts as a local reminder of the incompatibility of prosperity and ruin. The project was made possible by a triumvirate of likeminded citizens: Paul Guzzardo, owner, promoter, and "conceptor" of the club and its linkage to internet technology; interior designer Lorens Holm, who developed, refined and implemented the concept; and architect of record Ray Simon of St. Louis." --Monica Geran

"the technology connection is, certainly to both spokesmen, inseparable from Cabool's design story. (The club's name, it might be noted here, is a bowdlerized version of to "cobble," as in the area's erstwhile shoe-making trade, crossed with reference to the mysterious east, as in Afghanistan's capital.) There are, Holm explains, eight video cameras and several monitors, the former feeding images to the latter as well as to the club's very own website (see title); some of the equipment is in a mobile kiosk posing as a scaffolded tower. Visually projected for the guests' enjoyment are not only real images of the local scene but also virtual likenesses from all the world for intermixing with here-and-now reality. Voyeurism, in other words, works in many ways: Nightclub visitors can watch one another within, yet see what’s going on in foreign lands far away; and outsiders from heaven-knows-where can visually partake of the frolicking happening on Earth, at Club Cabool specifically. "The goal," concludes Holm, was "to produce an environment that's a heterogeneous construction of real spaces and images." Realization of the intent, however, is anything but virtual." -- Monica Geran