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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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Madrid, Spain
What is being hailed as the most colourful - and most expensive – PR gimmick in the hotel industry, the Hotel Puerta America in Madrid boasts more architects than it has storeys, more style than it has function, and more money than it has brunt. But it’s fabulous.
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Asymptote Architecture's latest projects - the Penang Global City Centre in Malaysia, the World Business Centre Busan in South Korea, and a luxury residential tower in the United Arab Emirates - are different to their past virtual work. These projects will be built, constructed from real materials in the real world.
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Taylor Robinson
Highgate, Perth
Pub renovations are the most controversial of building work. As the regulars’ nostalgic affection for beer-soaked carpets and cigarette burns on the bar competes with the owner’s hope for a glitzy renewal and a trendier crowd, the debate seems to expose a faultline in our idea of the local pub. History and tradition comes up against fashion and polish; the old and dirty claims precedence over the new and soulless. And everywhere, the debate becomes about whom the pub is there for, and how the building will reflect their claims on its soul.
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Jukkasjarvi, Swedish Lapland
Every year, teams of international artists are brought to the village of Jukkasjarvi in Swedish Lapland to build a hotel from ice and snow. A few are veterans, like Australian designer and photographer Daniel Rosenbaum; others are students, architects, industrial designers, sculptors, painters, jewellers, textile designers, theatre designers, NASA shuttle designers, graffiti artists and comic book illustrators, who have never worked with ice in their lives. |
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DOS Architects is the style behind the stars - from the recording studio to the ultimate luxury resort, and the funky hip hop set design. Their flair takes centre stage all over the world, putting the swing into bus shelters, the sweetness into a day at work, and the sparkle into a concrete jungle.
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Sydney
On 15 July 2005 Sydney's Hilton Hotel reopened its doors to the public, unveiling the results of a 30-month, A$200 million venture that saw the collaboration of different architects and designers, different materials and aesthetics, and different minds and views on how to transform what was widely regarded as a blight on the face of Sydney.
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Shuhei Endo, Kengo Kuma, Tezuka Architect, Yoshio Tanaguchi, Akira Sakamoto
Japan has one of the world's most admired architectural traditions, one that has influenced artists and architects worldwide from the mid-19th century onwards. Presented here are some of the best of a new generation of Japanese architects, intent on making "something new of tradition". |
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Marc Newson
Sydney International Airport
Airports are the sort of establishments we tend to steer clear of, except in the event of necessity. They are transfer points, to be visited only as a passing incident to arrival or departure. Restless queues, crowded bank seating and a cup of cold instant coffee have, in the past, dictated our desire to spend as little time in transit as possible. “Get in and get out” has been the modern-day airport ethos.
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Grounds Kent Architects
Bunker Bay, Western Australia The Quay West resort, which opened in April 2004, is an extension of the elemental site, rather than being imposed on the natural landscape. It is formed behind a sand dune and amidst a forest, with the salt water from Bunker Bay beach and the heady wine of the Margaret River Wine Region penetrating the air. |
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Dream on! is all that you can really say to the architects at Sybarite, and it's really because you want to know what they'll dream up next.
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Maddison Architecs
Melbourne, Victoria Maddison’s award winning project flaunts just how seamlessly architecture, the site, the theme, and the culture can interpenetrate – in a dialogue that is dynamic, explanatory, and thick with movement. Transport is situated in the heart of Melbourne city, Federation Square. Taxi, while considered a discrete entity, continues the transport analogy. |
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Haysom Architects
Byron Bay, NSW
Development in Byron Bay - which accommodates 1.7 million temporary residents every year - is an incredibly sensitive issue for locals, and the Byron at Byron Resort and Spa at Suffolk Park was constructed on a particularly sensitive plot of land.
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THE "Commune by the Great Wall" signalled a resurgence of confidence in Chinese and Asian architecture at a time when Western names (Koolhaas, Holl, Foster, Andreu, Herzog & de Meuron) were being awarded control over many of Beijing's status projects. It won a Silver Lion at the 2002 architectural Biennale in Venice, and cemented the careers of two unlikely Chinese architectural heroes.
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The Great Indoors Awards aspire to shape their discipline. At once promotion and pedagogy, they aim to combat a certain listlessness in interior design, a sense that the discipline is not yet "mature" and that its glamour and influence fall short of the neighbouring disciplines of architecture and product design.
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Frank Gehry | Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners | Foster+Partners | Steven Holl and Arup | Pascal Arquitectos | Architectus' Gallery of Modern Art, QLD
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