by Alissa Ponchione | Jun 12, 2012 | News
Nobu Hospitality partners Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro, and Meir Teper have revealed design details of their first hotel project, Nobu Hotel Caesars Palace, opening in late 2012. David Rockwell and his firm Rockwell Group are designing the property with a nod toward...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jun 12, 2012 | News
Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore has reopened its Garden Wing following a $51 million eight-month renovation. The 158 nature-inspired guestrooms feature large balconies overlooking either the hotel’s 15 acres of tropical greenery or the swimming pool. In addition,...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jun 12, 2012 | News
Stonehill & Taylor is mixing modern and historic elements in its design of Manhattan’s Refinery Hotel, a former hat-making facility known as the Colony Arcade opening this fall. “Our design was guided equally by historic fact and imagination,”...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jun 12, 2012 | Projects
For the design of the expansive Westin Abu Dhabi, it was necessary to “understand the fascinating cultural elements and undertones” implicit in the location, says Chicago-based Gettys principal Meg Prendergast. At the same time, she and her firm were...
by Alissa Ponchione | Jun 11, 2012 | News
David Ashen’s firm d-ash design has a new name and brand identity. Now known as dash design, the firm extracted the dash in the original moniker “as a symbolic representation of the company’s mission to bridge the gap between form and...
