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A Manhattan club offers an upscale take on the karaoke experience
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Skylab deftly mingles the city’s diverse culture — from totem poles to grunge music
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Renovation breathes new life into a historic New Orleans bar and lounge
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Designers name favorite hospitality products and solutions
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A former Danish embassy offers five-star accommodations, amenities, and animals
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Wuhan Pixel Box Cinema in Wuhan, China by One Plus Partnership
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Untitled in New York by Rockwell Group
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Grand Hyatt New York in New York by Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners
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Rockwell Group’s Shawn Sullivan handpicks 2012 finds fit for hospitality settings
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One Best of Competition, seven Best of Category projects, and an additional 13 projects
received Honorable Mentions from more than 100 projects from Mexico and
Central and South America
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A Hamburg hotel
evokes the city’s rich maritime culture
with eccentric touches
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SCDA Architects creates a luxury resort
that respects the fragile ecology
of the Maldives
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DiLeonardo merges design of both East and West in a new resort hotel off the coast of China
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Yabu Pushelberg reinterprets south Florida glamour
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A sophisticated interior by MASS Architecture & Design to match the cuisine of Chef Sang Yoon
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Inspired by champagne and caviar, II BY IV Design Associates crafts deluxe interiors
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With a retro British vibe, Blacksheep designs the latest Jamie Oliver restaurant
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Rockwell pairs Chinese culture with the Nobu brand
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A spa in Istanbul by HBA reinterprets the traditional Turkish bath
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Yoho Midtown in Hong Kong designed by One Plus Partnership
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Scarpetta Dining Pavilion in Toronto designed by II by IV Design Associates
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East Hotel in Hong Kong designed by CL3 Architects Ltd
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Sid Lee Architecture transforms a 1950s-era ferry into a world-class spa in Montreal’s Old Port
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Suzanne Tick and KnollTextiles celebrate 15 years of Screenplay with a new addition to the collection
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UK design studio Carbon creates a high-end cupcake kiosk within an Abu Dhabi shopping mall
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Smart space planning leads to intimate glamour at the luxury Japanese restaurant and lounge
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Sustainability goals inspire an elegant palette of coffee-colored hues for this chic coffee/wine bar
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Andalusian architecture turns up the heat in the desert
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Rowland+Broughton Architecture and Urban Design sets the scene at bb’s kitchen in Aspen, Colo., where inspired food, function, and flair are on the menu
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IQ Creative enlists local design firm Concrete to create a welcoming home for an Italian eatery in a working class Amsterdam neighborhood
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The artistic and cultural inclusions in Gensler’s design for Fairmont Pittsburgh unveil a sense of discovery into the city’s historic industrial and societal past
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A new restaurant chain boasts a modular, scalable space system with a distinctive look and feel
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The temporary nature of the What Happens When restaurant installation showcases an interior design and menu that changes every 30 days
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Champalimaud Design reinvigorates a world-class ski resort in a breathtaking region of northern Japan
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A collaboration between Darlene Pierpoint, Design Works Studio, and architect Catalina Beiner creates a distinctive character for the Pacific destination
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Chic hotel styling and amenities impress movie-goers at Scottsdale’s new iPic Theater-Scottsdale Quarter
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Los Angeles opens wide for URBNMRKT, an AC Martin-designed, grab-and-go eatery that bridges USC’s urban campus and an ultra-hip metropolis
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Hipper and greener than its nearby sister property, the h2hotel offers guests fun luxury with interiors by David Baker + Partners
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Jean Nouvel designs a landmark hotel in Vienna
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Lesly Zamor’s sexy interior design for an upscale New York taqueria brings Latin American flair to an unlikely neighborhood
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Sabroso Hotel in Miami, designed by Kyung-Eun Kim and Jamie Morin, Iowa Sate University
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Ocean House in Watch Hill, R.I., designed by Centerbrook Architects and Planners
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Haneda Japanese Restaurant designed by Kris Lin Interior Design in Fuzhou, China
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W Fort Lauderdale designed by Clodagh Design in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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Classic, clean designs mimic ancient Roman baths to promote healing and relaxation through subtle luxury in Chicago’s Elysian Hotel Spa, by Simeone Deary Design Group
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A recent addition to The Donald’s hospitality empire is the Trump Soho
New York, with its seventh-floor Spa,
created under the direction of Ivanka Trump and developer Alex Sapir, by
local firm DiGuiseppe Archtiect.
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Riscala Agnese Design Group principals Fadi Riscala and Michelle Agnese talk about their new Food Network series,
the secret to a successful partnership, and advantages of being
constantly curious.
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Look up in the air! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s the new Lufthansa A380 First Class Cabin, designed by Priestmangoode.
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Now sharing a title for the “largest cruise ship in the world” with its recently launched sister ship, Allure of the Seas, Oasis of the Seas sets an example for luxury vacations.
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Famous fashion label Moschino creates a fantasy land of sorts, converting an old Milan rail station into a new hotel
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Whether you’re attending an event, concert, or football game in Arlington, Texas, Dallas Cowboys Stadium offers a variety of high-end venues, designed by HKS, Inc.
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History and modernity meet in high style at The Fullerton Bay Hotel in Singapore, inviting guests to an extraordinary experience where each moment is a destination
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A fresh club concept and a winning design recipe for unabashed sex appeal is all that Voyeur, by Mark Zeff Design, needed to make its lasting mark on Los Angeles’ nightlife scene
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Entasis employ steel and glass, slate, and ash in a temple of culinary experimentation that is also a timeless design statement
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Trinchero Family Estates in St. Helena, Calif., expands its business and image with a new hospitality center, designed by BAR Architects and Erin Martin Design
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Evan Douglis uses the latest computer technology to evoke a grape arbor in a casual neighborhood restaurant
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An innovative interior design by nemaworkshop helps grow New York City coffee brand d’espresso
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Mark Tracy shocks again in Sin City with bold color and texture at Rumor Hotel, Las Vegas.
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Drawing upon Italian sexiness and notions of Milanese modernity, CCS Architecture designs the chic wine bar Barbacco in San Francisco.
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In between working on projects still too confidential to talk about, the Gensler design director sounds off on hospitality as a way of life, a supportive mother, and the importance of staying true to yourself.
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With a modern aesthetic that abstractly references a traditional food
market, the 2,400-sq.-ft. eatery is a slick, contemporary backdrop to feature
and complement the menu.
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Hyderabad's long jewelry tradition is the inspiration for the décor of
the new Park Hyderabad, a boutique hotel operated by Apeejay Surrendra
Park Hotels.
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Chairama Spa, designed by Giancarlo Mazzanti and plan:b, draws inspiration from the intrinsic beauty and diversity of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta landscape in Colombia
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Eccentricity best describes designer Charles Doell's latest trip into design—Johnny Smalls, housed in the new HRH Tower of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
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Submissions for The 32nd annual award from Contract magazine now due October 1.
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ICRAVE brings a New York Hamptons sensibility to the Hollywood scene with its design of The Colony
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After a $145-million restoration, the former Fairmont Hotel property has returned to its former glory.
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Contemporary styles showcase enhancements in texture, clean forms, and colorful palettes with metallics.
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Eco-friendly designs, bold colors, and metal and mesh were prominent at Milan 2010.
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With a Boston location and an imposing building that dates back to 1893, David Rockwell and the Morgans Hotel Group design team had inspiration surrounding them for Ames.
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These 11 new materials and technologies offer a glimpse into where innovation is taking us.
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The latest Aman resort integrates minimal forms with a spectacular rockscape
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Robert Polacek of Puccini Group divulges on the design of the upcoming Chicago
gastro-lounge and their focus on highlighting individual ingredients.
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Sand and sea converge in southwest Florida.
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How interior design can be used to instill lasting feelings of passion and
romance.
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What colors will be popular this year, and what will be driving their
popularity?
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Thanks to designer Yasumichi
Morita, the Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic, Shinjuku Sanchome gives women a place to
unwind inside.
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Stephanie Goto, founder of New York-based Stephanie Goto Design Group, loves
restaurants, everything about them.
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A visual montage of our 2010 winning projects
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In our 50th year of publication, Contract proudly presents the winners of the 31st Annual Interiors Awards Competition.
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Reinvention is
never easy, but in the restaurant business it's a necessary evil—particularly if
the trendiest places want to stay current. Still, it was hard for Munge Leung
Design to remodel five-year-old ULTRA.
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It's always a challenge to rebrand a property, especially one
like the Hyatt West Hollywood that's rich in its history and rock-n-roll lore.
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A former textile factory in Lodz, Poland, built in 1852 and
abandoned in the late '90s, sets the stage for the city's first and only
four-star hotel.
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Lighting designer Leni Schwendinger recently spoke with Contract magazine to
discuss the importance of light in design and how it can be utilized to
influence and enhance any commercial project.
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Today’s multipurpose hotel lobby functions as living room, meeting room, dining
room, and art gallery to provide the complete guest experience
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For the W Washington D.C., a good lesson in duality made for an exciting design
solution that shed some modern light onto a very historic structure.
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One of the biggest trends to sweep guestrooms around the world is the open, New
York loft-style aesthetic.
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