Projects
View and learn more about the design of hotels, resorts, and other hospitality projects, including hotel lobbies, resort bungalows, cabins, resort compounds, and rental accommodation; for case studies, precedent studies, and inspiration.
Featuring the work of renown designers and architects Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, John Pawson, Plasma Studio, Victoria + Lucchino, Marc Newson, Ron Arad, Kathryn Findlay, Richard Gluckman, Arata Isozaki, Mariscal + Salas, David Chipperfield, Christian Liaigre, Teresa Sapey, Oscar Neimeyer, Johnson Pilton Walker Architects, Taylor Robinson, Sybarite Architecture, Haysom Architects, Grounds Kent Architects, and Morris-Nunn + Associates, among many others.
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There are few things as classic as a black-and-white palette. Oozing class and sophistication, yet devoid of pretentious trappings, the interior of Canberra’s Burbury Hotel caters to the many travellers and weary business-people who find a home away from home at the Burbury, sometimes for significant stretches of time. Regden Mathieson set out to create an interior that would stand the test of time, exuding comfort, calm and permanence. The Burbury is a 4.5 star hotel located in Barton, just a short way from Parliament House. Being in this prime location naturally attracts a lot of corporate business. Inside the hotel, dark timber wall panels meet luminous gothera limestone. The effect is simulta- neously chic and understated. The secret to Regden Mathieson’s success with this interior, not surprisingly, is small things done very well.
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Bangkok based architects VaSLab Architecture designed the recently opened Casa de la Flora, located in Khao Lak, about an hour from Phuket. The 36 Villa resort is architecturally bold, offering consummate contemporary design, it is an interesting juxtaposition of urban Brutalist architecture and the natural beauty of the Andaman Sea, which creates something exceptional. All the villas have large glass facades and views of the ocean, as well as private pools in addition to the usual facilities found in a resort like the bar, restaurant and spa there is also a library. The resort is designed with concrete and natural materials like teakwood to create relaxing, beautiful spaces that are the epitome of contemporary luxury.
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The Hotel Sezz Saint-Tropez, which opened its doors earlier this year, features a stunning new spa and luxury private villas designed by Christophe Pillet. The resort is a member of Design HotelsTM and a glamorous destination on the French Riviera. The 1950’s colour code of the hotel – a mix of white, light grey, dark brown, light blue and saffron – provides a perfectly chic backdrop for having a drink, a fine dining experience, or simply relaxing in the fresh summer breeze. The new villas were designed with a loft concept in mind, and are characterised by space, comfort and exclusivity. The villas feature two bedrooms, a large lounge, a terrace, private garden and swimming pool, as well as the resort’s signature colour pallet.
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Frank Gehry’s recently completed, and long-awaited, New York by Gehry is the first of its kind to be designed by the famous architect. At 76 stories high, the multi-use residential complex is the tallest in the Western hemisphere and nestles well within Manhattan’s rich skyline. Soaring above a pocket of low-rise buildings that fill the outskirts of New York’s financial district, New York by Gehry stands in charming dialogue with the nearby New York City Hall, Woolworth building and Brooklyn bridge; paying homage to the great city’s past and future.
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Mission Beach is a stunning 14km stretch of golden sand between Townsville and Cairns in North Queensland. Here the tropical rainforest meets the Great Barrier Reef in a place of unspoilt natural beauty. Castaways Resort and Spa is a stunning beachfront resort with a popular restaurant and cocktail bar. Opened in 1984-5 the resort is popular with families and couples. After 15 years in business and the arrival of new owners, Castaways Resort and Spa needed to be revitalised, and Edge Architecture’s Far North Queensland AIA commended amendments have done just that. The aim was for Castaways Resort to have a contemporary beach resort atmosphere and engage with the tropical climate, the coastal location and the local community.
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The stunning Saffire Resort, on Tasmania’s naturally spectacular Coles Bay, was imagined from the beginning as an iconic project that would redefine tourism in Tasmania and provide a new luxury tourist destination for primarily interstate and international guests. Saffire is an intimate resort comprising of 20 private suites, a main reception building, dining and lounge areas, as well as a gym, a bar, a boardroom and a gallery. Guests arrive at the reception area – known as “the sanctuary” – by a long jetty-like walkway. A viewing platform overlooks the bay, emphasising the natural beauty of the area. The resort has dazzling views of beautiful Great Oyster Bay, Freycourt Peninsula and the Hazard Mountains. The Hazard Mountains are unique geologically, with their pink granite giving them an orange/rosy hue. In the midst of such picturesque surrounds the architects aimed to capture the uniquely Tasmanian environment in the form, materials, colours and scale of the resort. The building has an organic relationship to the site, and evokes the coastal landscape, the ocean and its creatures in its architecture.
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Now in its third year, the World Architecture Festival has become the platform for the world’s biggest architecture contest that attracts architects worldwide to battle it out in Barcelona. From November 3–5 this year, over 500 entries from 65 countries competed for awards in just 15 completed buildings categories, with three Australian practices emerging victorious. International superstars met the industry’s unsung, with each to have gone head-to-head in front of a jury of architecture luminaries to take out the grand title of 2010 World Building of the Year. We take a look at some of the winners from this year’s Festival.
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The recipe behind Seven Seeds seems quite simple. Take an existing inner city warehouse and transform it into a roastery and café facility that’s as ecologically sustainable as possible. Reuse existing materials here, add some water tanks there and a greenhouse somewhere in the middle and, voila! But one has only to walk through the café’s warm, modestly rendered entrance, into a treasure trove of finely executed ideas to see that Seven Seeds is all this, and much more.
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Adaptive reuse usually starts with an existing building, and ends with an exterior facelift, or a complete interior redesign, or both. But what if the start point is but a burnedout shell of a building? The result, as here, is less “reuse” and more “resurrection”. Building 13 had already undergone adaptive reuse in 2007 – and proved instantly popular with the cyclists and walkers frequenting the riverside park. So when the café was completely destroyed by fire that November, the need for a replacement became instantly apparent.
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I. M. Pei, Studio Pei-Zhu and Atelier Deshaus modernise the Chinese vernacular
Torn across temporal and spatial axes, the challenge for contemporary Chinese architects is to become both genuinely contemporary and genuinely Chinese. The tension between identity and modernity may well be an old cliché, but there is real difficulty in being modern in a world where modernity is identified with Western grandeur or communist squalor, and real conflict in building a “Chinese” architecture without slipping into pastiche or nostalgia.
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