hospitality projects

w nashville – nashville, tennessee

Inspired by Nashville’s rich musical culture, this new 16-story W Hotel will accommodate live performances and celebrate the city’s musical identity — within the upscale hospitality setting for which the W is well known. Slated for a 2020 opening, the W Nashville will add to the vibrancy of the city’s Gulch neighborhood — a redeveloping district between downtown and Nashville’s Music Row — at the pedestrian street level as well as event terraces and amenity decks that provide for an array of dining, leisure and recreational experiences. The W Nashville is planned to include approximately 350 guest rooms, rooftop bar, music venue, pool amenity deck and two restaurants.

client: HKS Architects

omni dallas hotel – dallas, texas

Conceived as a key third anchor to revitalize downtown, the Omni Dallas Hotel provided much-needed lodging for the adjacent convention center — and is one of the area’s most successful hotel and leisure destinations. The 1,001-room hotel provides upscale guest experiences from arrival in the elegant porte cochere and its adjacent dining terraces, with their pleasing rhythm of water and fire features, up-lit trees and distinctive hardscape, to the multipurpose fourth-floor amenity terrace. The terrace features an outdoor bar, custom fire pit and seating, raised planters and a 1,900-square-foot pool elevated five feet above the bar terrace, creating the feeling of being apart within a shared space. Custom-cut Portuguese limestone, custom asphalt paver blends including Pennsylvania bluestone slate, and tropical hardwoods exude sophistication through distinctive materiality. Pegasus Plaza, just steps from the hotel’s door, helps further establish the area as a popular and well-visited destination with a restored Pegasus from the old Magnolia Building as its centerpiece.

client: Matthews Southwest

ningbo zixiang paradise crowne plaza resort – ningbo, china

In collaboration with the architecture firm HKS, TBG created a dynamic plan for the Ningbo Zixiang Paradise Crowne Plaza Resort based around a unique dragon motif, melding cultural significance, through the ancient Chinese symbol of the earth dragon, with sophisticated contemporary design sensibilities. The plan elegantly responds to the site and represents a dragon coiled upon the southeastern shore of the East China Sea. Also in Ningbo, China, TBG is working with HKS on the Ningbo Chunxiao Yangsha master plan, an approximately 200-acre master plan for a unique mixed-use tourist destination. The master plan is comprised of four main parts: a retail village, fishing village, nature research center/adventure camp, and an eco-village/island resort. The project received a 2013 ASLA Merit Award.

client: HKS Architects

hilton anatole jadewaters resort pool complex – dallas, texas

Imagine a luxury resort pool experience winding through a premier collection of East Asian art at a landmark hotel — it’s real, and it’s JadeWaters. The Hilton Anatole boasts the country’s largest hotel art collection, and the addition of the JadeWaters resort pool complex extended that defining cultural character to the realm of aquatic recreation. In July 2017, TBG professionals conducted a post-occupancy evaluation to gauge the social, environmental and economic impacts of JadeWaters to the overall hotel and guest experience. Along with guest satisfaction surveys and food/beverage revenue impacts, the analysis included studies of surface temperatures at three times of day for various areas like wood bridges, artificial turf, pavers, concrete, decking, etc. The findings helped reveal JadeWaters’ impact on the development’s overall value.

client: Anatole Partners III, LLC c/o Crow Family Holdings

grand solmar land’s end resort & spa – cabo san lucas, mexico

Situated between rugged mountains and the turquoise waters of the Pacific, Grand Solmar is a picturesque resort getaway set on the Baja Peninsula’s southernmost tip. It’s a contemporary luxury destination nestled seamlessly among narrow beaches enveloped by mountainous terrain that has become a premier oceanfront hospitality destination. The soft, contextual landscape design utilizes locally sourced materials from the adjacent mountains and provides a series of rejuvenating guest experiences. Grand Solmar was recognized as one of the Top 25 Hotels in Mexico in the 2016 TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice awards.

client: HKS Architects

desert diamond west valley casino resort – glendale, arizona

TBG helped to facilitate a large-scale expansion and adaptation for the Desert Diamond West Valley Casino Resort that includes new hotel amenities and upscale guest experiences. Design focus areas included an enhanced arrival experience with new entries and porte cocheres, new monuments, lawn, pedestrian plaza and landscape enhancements with characteristic desert plantings.

client: Wood Patel & Associates

canopy by hilton san antonio river walk – san antonio, texas

It’s a seamless integration of local history, contemporary design and a boutique hospitality experience: Canopy by Hilton San Antonio River Walk. Located on the historic horseshoe section of the River Walk, the San Antonio location of Canopy pays homage to the historical setting along with a unique tower form that cantilevers over the adjacent Esquire Tavern, which is the city’s oldest bar. Established elements have been repurposed — including the historic building façade’s use in the reconstructed façade on Commerce Street, as well as a preserved 18th century stone cistern integrated into the ground-level outdoor patio.

client: Merritt Development Group

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