Four Seasons Resort Hualalai selected as the #1 hotel destination

Greenest Home in America – Tah Mah Lah

The Tah Mah Lah residence has been featured in GreenTech Advocates on-line edition! “When Paul Holland and Linda Yates set out to build a the “greenest home in America” on the Portola Valley, Calif. hillside where Linda grew up, they envisioned something that would debunk the myths that green building …

Cliffhanger – Radical Innovations in Hospitality Award

An interview with the Design team of the Cliffhanger hotel project was posted last week! “Not an ocean view, not city skyline view, but a suspended-on-a-cliff view. ” See the interview here!  4 Questions with Edward, Leo and Heath  

Insights about Digital Marketing

Recently Ryan Martin participated in a forum on Digital Marking Techniques hosted by MagicLogix Read more here to see the five techniques they determined 

A Diamond in the Rough

    On Nov. 14, the hospitality gang boarded a northbound commuter train in Palo Alto to meet up with their San Francisco colleagues for lunch at our new digs at 539 Bryant Street in San Francisco’s fabled South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood.  For those who haven’t heard the news, …

Tah.Mah.Lah. for Today: Sustainable. Regenerative. Home.

Well Beyond LEED Platinum — Greenest Home in its Class There is a past, present and future sensibility to the home conceived by Paul Holland and Linda Yates and designed by HKS Hill Glazier Studio.  In deference to the first residents of the verdant Portola Valley land on which it …

Makanakhon: The New “Grand Metropolis” of Bangkok

This is a wonderful article written by Chad Porter and Brian Ahmes of HKS. I found the storytelling very engaging and experiential. I hope everyone gets a chance to read them & comment. This is the first of five of their submissions to Evolo magazine.

Celeste Beach Residences

  Celeste Private Residences & Spa Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico Hidden in a little known bay on Mexico’s southern Pacific Ocean coastline in the state of Oaxaca, Celeste is a sanctuary far away from urban centers and their daily distractions. If you could see Huatulco’s coastline from the air you’d see …

HKS Hospitality Best Spa Projects on Condé Nast Traveler 2012 Readers’ Poll

HKS Hill Glazier Studio continues to impress hotel guests. This year, 35 of the firm’s destination locations were featured on the Condé Nast Traveler 2012 Readers’ Poll. The awards list, in the June 2012 issue, features 270 of the best spas in North America, the Caribbean, Hawaii and at Sea …

Maker Bot 3d Printer

  HKS has just got a new tool, the MakerBot Replicator!   The MakerBot is a personal 3D printer with single or dual extrusion that uses a spool of natural plastic as the building material. It has a large printing footprint that allows you to print a volume of more than 300 …

Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: The Guest’s Perspective

  We hope you’ve gleaned some key design takeaways from our Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests series. There’s a constant theme woven throughout each installment:  how design is driven by what the guest wants, feels, sees, touches, hears and tastes. To avoid repeating ourselves in this final …

Corrigan to Speak at the China Luxury Hotel Designing Congress 2012

  Can design actually ruin a luxury hotel? Jess Corrigan, executive director of the Asia Pacific Region with HKS Architects, says yes. Corrigan will explore 10 planning and design issues that can impact the guest experience, operator’s success and owner’s finances at the China Luxury Hotel Designing Congress, to be …

Zapiain Serves as Judge for WAN Competition

(click for full story)   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). The WAN AWARDS Hotel of the Year is a major international competition that celebrates and promotes …

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. With 1,012 rooms, the 33-story convention hotel will feature 35 meeting rooms; 115,000 square feet of meeting, banquet and exhibition space; two major food-and-beverage venues; underground parking; …

Why Americans don’t like Jazz

  Why Americans don’t like Jazz As an American who likes jazz (well, ‘likes’ is a weak word, I love jazz), I found this article interesting and I wonder what parallels this might have with architecture. The topic of abstract expression is something that might overlap. Are you listening to …

{ LIVE BETWEEN }

  {LIVE BETWEEN} is a concept created by HKS designers Daron Andrus, Dustin Siegrist, Regan Holton, Zachary Lamp, Ryan Martin, Alison Andrus and Beau Eaton. To view the {LIVE BETWEEN} process from start to finish visit:  http://www.facebook.com/livebetween https://twitter.com/#!/LiveBetween

Fontainebleau Miami Beach – Named AIA Top Building in Florida

  From Fontainbleau.com: AIA Florida Reveals Winner of the Top 100 Buildings Competition After more than 2.4 million votes cast in the “100 Years. 100 Places.” competition, Fontainebleau Miami Beach came in number one in the state after garnering the most votes from the public. To commemorate the 100-year anniversary …

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. Because F&B is expected to generate a hefty …

Lighting Design by Hotelier, Ian Schrager

Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests: The Guestroom Corridor

Here is the fifth installment of HKS Hill Glazier Studio’s blog “Top 10 Design Tips to Dazzle Your Guests.” This month, the focus is on corridor design, with thoughts from Regan Holton, Ryan Martin, and Kim Tran. We know, we know—using the phrase “dazzle your guests” when discussing corridor design …