Zapiain Serves as Judge for WAN Competition

May 14, 2012

Zapiain Serves as Judge for WAN Competition
Luis Zapiain, associate principal with HKS’s London office, will serve as judge for the 2012 WAN AWARDS Hotel of the Year design competitions, hosted by World Architecture News (WAN).
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HKS to Design JW Marriott Austin Luxury Convention Hotel

May 3, 2012

HKS to Design JW Marriott Austin Luxury Convention Hotel
HKS Hill Glazier Studio was awarded a contract for the design of the luxury convention hotel, the JW Marriott Austin in Texas.
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Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: Hotel Meeting Space

May 3, 2012

Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: Hotel Meeting Space
Flexibility and connectivity are two key space requirements that meeting and event planners look for in a host hotel today. Flexibility is vital to celebratory gatherings, too, as is natural light and indoor-outdoor access. 
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Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: The Hotel Restaurant /Food & Beverage Space

March 1, 2012

Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: The Hotel Restaurant /Food & Beverage Space
Like an intricately flavored sauce, designing food and beverage (F&B) space in hotels is a complex task that must meet the multifaceted needs of many users – chefs, kitchen and wait staff, hotel guests, discerning locals, meeting and event planners and more.
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Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: The Spa

February 2, 2012

Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: The Spa
An outstanding spa experience can help set a hotel or resort apart from its competition. From a design perspective, the spa presents an architect with an opportunity to get creative. From an ownership point of view, it is an integral profit center. Great spa design must be beautifully pristine, yet highly functional – imagine spa employees floating like butterflies in rarified air, creating a guest experience deluged in relaxation  and rejuvenation – the ultimate escape.
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Hitting the Slopes at Montage Deer Valley

January 25, 2012

It’s time to dust off the ski boots, grab your goggles and hit the slopes once again. The recently opened, HKS-designed Montage Deer Valley in Park City, Utah is the perfect ski destination. Montage Deer Valley promises to be a skier’s paradise with authentic ski-in, ski-out access with panoramic vistas of northern Utah’s majestic Wasatch Mountain Range and the entire Park City basin. Interiors by Wilson Associates.

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HKS Hill Glazier Projects Make Conde Nast Gold List

January 16, 2012

HKS Hill Glazier Projects Make Conde Nast Gold List
Once again, an impressive array of HKS Hill Glazier Studio-designed projects was included on the Condé Nast Traveler 18th annual “Gold List” featured in the January 2012 issue.
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HKS Hospitality Projects Included on T + L Top 500 List

January 13, 2012

HKS Hospitality Projects Included on T + L Top 500 List
Travel + Leisure magazine’s January 2012 issue features the Top 500 list of the world’s best hotels. This is the 10th year T + L has published the 500 top-rated hotels around the globe, selected by their readers. 
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Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: The Hotel Pool

December 27, 2011

Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: The Hotel Pool
Whether on a tropical island, urban rooftop or basement floor, the hotel pool is one hospitality design niche where it definitely pays to know your audience.  Everyone knows that pools and poolscapes are costly to build and maintain; understanding how much this amenity will be used and enjoyed by guests is fundamental to the design concept. 
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Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: The Guestroom Corridor

December 1, 2011

Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: The Guestroom Corridor
We know, we know – using the phrase “dazzle your guests” when discussing corridor design seem contrary, unlikely companions.  Yet this most rudimentary, transitional space plays an important role in guest comfort, and is critical to the overall experience.  Smart corridor design is essential in large or convention hotels and resorts, where the simple act of finding a room can go from goodnight to nightmare. 
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