by Alissa Ponchione | Dec 7, 2009 | News
The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, in Amelia Island, Florida, has completed construction on a $22 million ballroom expansion, concluding a 14-year effort to increase the oceanfront resort’s footprint, it announced last week. The expansion, which added 11,000...
by Alissa Ponchione | Dec 7, 2009 | Projects
Perhaps for many, the word "cafeteria" conjures up memories of childhood days spent in a dark lunchroom with ladies in hairnets slinging slop onto plates, and thoughts of high design and quality nutrition never come to mind. Comcast set out to change this...
by Alissa Ponchione | Dec 7, 2009 | Projects
The totalizer is a machine that displays the odds at a racecourse, and its numbers are eagerly scanned by everyone who is placing a bet. In Mumbai, though horse racing is still a favorite sport, the totalizer that functioned during the years of the Mughal Empire...
by Alissa Ponchione | Dec 7, 2009 | Projects
For the W Washington DC, a good lesson in duality made for an exciting design solution that shed some modern light onto a very historic structure. "The whole project had to be updated to this century," explains Dianna Wong, principal at Dianna Wong...
by Alissa Ponchione | Dec 4, 2009 | News
In spring 2010, New York’s Smyth Hotel will introduce Jour et Nuit Restaurant and lounge, spearheaded by native Parisian restaurateur Frederick Lesort. The hotel’s owners, Thompson Hotels, hired AvroKO to re-create the vibrancy of the French Riviera for...
