Hospitality by SCB Design

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Solomon Cordwell Buenz

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Design for a changing world. Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) is an architecture, interior design, and planning firm with a thoughtful design vision and a dynamic national imprint. Since 1931, SCB has made a lasting visual impact on skylines, campuses, and neighborhoods nationwide. From offices in Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and Seattle we offer our expertise to clients across the country, helping them achieve their goals, serve their constituents, and create unique built environments. Our approach is to ask questions, listen, and develop the best design solution for each individual project. We are future-oriented, continually challenging ourselves to design to a higher standard, innovate at every level, and give our clients more as we achieve design excellence.

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Hospitality Experience SCB has broad expertise in hotel development and design and a deep understanding of the impact architecture and design have on perception, trust, and confidence in a brand. As a design firm working across the country, SCB brings a broad perspective and knowledge to hospitality projects, however we believe that each project must be tailored to respond to a city’s particular context, while maintaining the guest experience that is the foundation of a hotel’s brand. The programmatic complexity of these projects must be fully integrated to ensure that a hotel is a destination for visitors, and locals alike. Over the past decade the firm has designed and delivered over 12,000 keys for a variety of leading hotel brands. From 5-star luxury experiences, to full-service conference hotels, to extended-stay accommodations, our experience reflects a full spectrum of hospitality offerings.

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Urban Design Experts SCB has long been recognized for its understanding of how people live, work, travel, and learn. As such, the firm’s diversified design practice spans building typologies, geographies, and market sectors. With a legacy rooted in urban development, the firm’s design methodology paired with a balanced understanding of high-level design, technical innovation, and sustainable design strategies has resulted in an award-winning portfolio of work for some of the top developers in the country.

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Select Clients – 21C Hotels

– Magellan Development

– AJ Capital

– Mandarin Oriental Hotel

– Amway Alticor Hotel

– Marriott Hotels

– Chicago Hilton Hotel & Towers

– Mesa Development

– CIM Group

– MK Group

– Embassy Suites Hotel

– Mondrian Hotel

– Fifield Realty Corporation

– Northern Capital Investments LLC

– Forest City Residential Group

– Peter Island Resort

– Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

– Radisson Hotel & Suites

– Geller Investment Company

– Related Companies

– Golub & Company

– Starwood Hotels & Resorts

– Graduate Hotels

– The Alter Group

– Hilton Hotels

– The Congress Group

– Hines

– The Habitat Company

– Howard Hughes Corporation

– The Hanover Company

– Hyatt Classic Residence

– The John Buck Company

– Hyatt Hotels and Resorts

– The Penrose Corporation

– Jones Lang LaSalle

– United Airlines

– Jupiter Realty Company

– Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts

– Loews Hotels

– Westin Hotels

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Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Long a center for business and entertainment, a burgeoning urban residential market is emerging in downtown Nashville. The Four Seasons represents the ultimate luxury project in the city, bringing high-end condominiums and a five-star hotel, as well as a 380-car parking facility and 9,500 square feet of upscale street level retail. The expression and presence of the building at both the street level and within the skyline was a significant design driver for the project. Embodying Nashville's music culture, the design was inspired by the iconic image of an acoustic guitar; the instrument’s aesthetic properties parallel the architectural qualities of the podium clad in warm-colored panels and weathered steel. The podium is punctuated with large expanses of glass, activating the façade and connecting the streetscape with activity inside the building. The building’s adjacency to the historic Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge allows for unique program and place-making elements, such as an elevated, pop-up performance venue. Above the podium rises an elegant, modern, and sleek 40-story glass tower that is oriented to capture exceptional views and reflect the luxury of the condominiums and five-star hotel within. The mixed-use program offers two sets of amenities; one for hotel guests and one for residents. The 14th floor offers a landscaped rooftop garden, lounge, and relaxation areas exclusively for condominium owners. Hotel amenities are located on the 7th floor and include luxury spa facilities, an infinity edge pool, lounge deck, and rooftop bar. The hotel offers a full suite of conference and event facilities, including a 10,000-square-foot ballroom and pre-function space with views to the Cumberland River and the city skyline. Location

Nashville, TN

Size

851,000 SF / 40 stories / 143 condominiums / 236 keys

Sustainability

Targeting LEED Gold

Client

Congress Group and AECOM Capital

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Loews North Park Drive Loews North Park Drive is a 51-story mixed-use development that combines 398 luxury apartments, a 400-key full-service hotel, parking, and street level retail and dining space. The structure converses with its surrounding context through a stone and precast concrete vocabulary at the base, which then transitions at the tower to a glass curtain-wall expression. The final design capitalizes on a challenging site characterized by a sloping and elevated streetscape, allowing for separate hotel and residential entries, as well as concealed parking and service access. The structure maximizes views for the benefit of residents by placing residential units on the top floors and providing generous exterior glass line exposures. Roof terraces on the 15th and 50th floors overlook the city, the Chicago River, and Lake Michigan provide space for outdoor hospitality and entertainment for residents. The third floor amenity deck offers an outdoor bar, pool, landscaped garden, and fitness club. Retail and dining anchor the ground floor, enlivening the building’s street level presence. Location

Chicago, IL

Size

924,000 SF / 51 stories / 398 apartments / 400 keys

Client

DWR

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Moscone Hotel The Moscone Hotel is a proposed new mixed-use development in San Francisco that includes a 795-key hotel, 100 residential units, and a 300-space public parking garage. The hotel presents an opportunity to integrate the hospitality needs of the greater Moscone Convention Center area and address the dramatic densities being created by the nearby Transbay Center and Central SOMA plans, all while acknowledging the heritage of nearby Montgomery-Mission and Second and Howard historic districts. The full-service hotel provides 64,000-square-feet of meeting and event space including a divisible ballroom with indoor/outdoor pre-function space. Vibrant food and beverage offerings at the ground floor activate the street level and public realm, along with a dynamic, color-changing façade. A rooftop bar boasts expansive views of downtown and The Bay. Location

San Francisco, CA

Size

398,000 SF / 795 keys / 100 units / 300 parking spaces

Client

SOMA

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The Fifth The Fifth is a 798,000-square-foot, 39-story mixed-use tower in the heart of downtown Des Moines. The project includes a 150-key 21C Hotel and 200 luxury apartments. The hotel will feature 7,000 square feet of gallery space on the ground floor to host permanent and visiting contemporary art exhibitions, open to guests and locals. The ground floor also offers a restaurant and bar, as well as retail spaces. On the 12th floor, guest amenities include a fitness center with yoga studio, lounge space, full-service spa and outdoor pool and sun terrace. Location

San Francisco, CA

Size

798,000 SF / 39 stories / 220 apartments / 150 keys

Client

Mandelbaum Properties

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Kings Village Located just off Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, Kings Village consists of a new 32-story building with 210 luxury hotel condominium units and associated hotel amenity spaces and parking. The design of the building is shaped by the views of the ocean and mountains, with every unit featuring ocean views. The hotel sky lobby and amenity areas are elevated above a parking podium, including outdoor terraces, pools, restaurant, bar, lounge, meeting rooms, fitness facilities, and spa. Adjacent to the hotel entry on the ground level will be two commercial retail spaces. Location

Honolulu, HI

Size

425,000 SF /32 stories / 210 condominiums / 256 keys

Client

BlackSand Capital, LLC

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1899 McKinney Sited adjacent to Dallas’ most popular urban open space, Klyde Warren Park in the city’s Oak Lawn neighborhood, 1899 McKinney is a 26-story, 318,800-square-foot extended stay development. Leased entirely to Sonder, a new residential hospitality company, the project includes 270-keys, more than 8,000-square-feet of amenity space, six levels of underground parking, as well as a 19,000-square-foot landscaped public space. High-end amenities include a pool deck, fitness center, and business center providing services and conference rooms. The tower is broken down into elegant glass volumes that respond to the proportional scales and views of the neighborhood. Verdant landscaped balconies cantilever over the second floor amenity deck and visually connect the public space with the tower. Location

Dallas, TX

Size

318,000 SF / 26 stories / 270 keys

Client

Rastegar Property Company

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Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center Oberlin College is a national leader in the arts with a reputation for pioneering work in environmental sustainability. SCB worked with the College to realize its vision for the Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center, a highly sustainable, mixed-use building that serves as the front door to both the City of Oberlin and the Oberlin College campus. The 104,000-square-foot, mixed-use Gateway Center is a model for high performance buildings and whole systems thinking, utilizing a groundbreaking mix of first-of-its-kind sustainable technologies and innovative visitor engagement strategies. Encompassing guest rooms, event and conference spaces, a welcome center, a farm-to-table restaurant, and the College’s admissions office, the project reimagines the campus hotel typology to create a focal point that unites the City and the College. The Gateway Center’s Hotel at Oberlin is the fifth new hotel in the U.S. to achieve LEED Platinum. The Hotel at Oberlin is the first hotel in the U.S. to utilize radiant heating and cooling, supported by a geothermal well field and derives additional power from the College’s existing photovoltaic array. As measured by Energy Use Intensity, the building will be within the top ranking of commercial structures in North America using 55 percent less energy than comparable buildings. Location

Oberlin, OH

Size

104,000 SF / 70 keys

Sustainability

LEED Platinum

Client

Oberlin College

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Graduate Hotel East Lansing The Graduate Hotel, East Lansing is the newest property in the Graduate Hotel brand, a collection of boutique hotels uniquely designed for college towns. The nine-story, 194-key hotel is located across from the Michigan State University campus. The building takes cues in its materiality from the traditional brick campus, but infuses a modernity into the context through its light color and use of Roman-proportioned bricks. It will offer over 13,000 square feet of meeting and event space including a large ballroom boasting floor-to-ceiling glass and an outdoor terrace. Ground floor retail along Grand River Avenue contributes to the active thoroughfare. A rooftop bar open to guests and the public rounds out the hotel, offering views to campus and beyond. Location

East Lansing, MI

Size

122,000 SF / 8 stories /194 keys

Client

AJ Capital

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Graduate Hotel Ann Arbor The Graduate Hotel Ann Arbor is a mixed-use building featuring a hotel, event and conference center, creative office space, and a retail ground floor. Designed to serve a catalyst for the Midtown District, the LEED Gold-targeted project is intended to encourage future development along South Fifth Avenue. SCB was challenged to design a building that would sit atop the structural system of an existing four-story underground parking garage, maintain a portion of the constrained site to create a public plaza, and respect the unique character of downtown Ann Arbor. With the plaza as the focal point of the site, SCB developed a four-story base structure with a series of green roof setbacks, which visually break up the building’s mass and maintain a well-suited response to the scale of the surrounding area. The ascending green spaces lead to the tower, yet allow for pedestrians and plaza users to experience the building as a lower rise structure. The 197-key hotel tower features a variety of event and meeting spaces, including two ballrooms with outdoor terraces. Additional amenities include a fitness center with an outdoor yoga deck and rooftop bar with views of the University of Michigan. Located within the base structure is approximately 30,000 square feet of creative office space and 7,500 square feet of ground floor retail and a hotel lobby. The ground floor retail was designed to further activate the public plaza by using large windows and garage door-like openings to reveal activity taking place within the spaces, as well as provide the opportunity to open these spaces to the outdoors, thus combining the retail and plaza in warmer months. Location

Ann Arbor, MI

Size

182,000 SF / 197 keys

Client

AJ Capital

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The Morris Inn The Morris Inn has served as the front door to the University of Notre Dame for over 60 years and is a hub for activity and gathering for alumni, faculty, students, and administrators. In association with hotel interiors design firm The Gettys Group, SCB re-envisioned this campus landmark through a complete renovation and 54,000-square-foot expansion of the original facility. The program included an additional 60 guest rooms to make a total of 150 rooms, and a new 300-seat capacity ballroom that can be reconfigured into three smaller meeting rooms. There are several new areas for dining, including a 1,800-square-foot, 100-seat private dining room divisible into three smaller rooms, a new 75-seat pub with casual dining, and a renovated and expanded lobby. To integrate with the existing campus aesthetic, SCB’s design incorporated a completely new brick and stone, collegiate gothic façade that wraps around the original 1950s facility and offers a new porte cochere guest drop-off. The new Morris Inn now both sits and fits in the heart of Notre Dame’s storied campus and continues its tradition as the “living room of the university.” The Morris Inn was designed to use 18 percent less energy than code. Through a measurement and verification process, the project achieved a measured performance of 30 percent better than code, thus the hotel was awarded LEED Gold. Location

South Bend, IN

Size

54,000 SF / 150 keys

Sustainability

LEED Gold

Client

University of Notre Dame

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Hyatt House In proximity to Northwestern University and Lake Michigan, the Hyatt House is located in downtown Evanston. The hotel is a prime destination for shopping, dining, and entertainment. The eight-story, 86,000-square-foot building provides an entrance lobby on Chicago Avenue with full service valet parking and a 35-car parking garage. The hotel offers 114 full-service, extended-stay guestrooms with a restaurant, bar, market, meeting rooms, fitness facility, administrative areas, and a second floor outdoor landscaped terrace. Hyatt House Evanston integrates sustainable and energy savings elements that comply with LEED Silver. Location

Evanston, IL

Size

86,000 SF / 8 stories / 114 keys

Sustainability

LEED Silver

Client

Hyatt Hotels

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370 S. West Temple 370 S. West Temple is a 28-story mixed-use development in an emerging neighborhood of downtown Salt Lake City. The phased project combines 341 apartments, a 217-key boutique hotel, 52,000-square-foot co-working office, parking, and street level retail and dining. The garage podium includes ground floor lobby and retail, while the top of the podium hosts a large amenity deck. The residential amenity spaces include a fitness area, lounge, catering kitchen, conference space, and rooftop pool. The hotel, which will be completed in phase two, will feature a restaurant, ballroom space and a theater/entertainment lounge. Due to its proximity to multiple forms of public transportation, the building falls under Salt Lake City’s Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) ordinance, which allows for the building to offer reduced parking to encourage other forms of transportation. Location

Salt Lake City, UT

Size

639,000 SF / 342 apartments / 217 keys

Client

Domain Companies

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Mandarin Oriental Hotel The Mandarin Oriental Tower Chicago is designed as a 61-story, mixed-use development located in the Illinois Center Planned Urban Development District. Mandarin Oriental Chicago was planned as a 250-key luxury hotel with 100 branded residences, 260 condominiums, spa and wellness facility, meeting facility, a business center, and several food and beverage outlets The site of the Mandarin Oriental Chicago is a mixed-use retail, commercial, and residential center located in the heart of one of Chicago’s most vibrant neighborhoods. The mix of luxury hotel, retail, and high quality residential units within this development creates a synergy to build on the neighborhood’s energy and make it even more inviting. Location

Chicago, IL

Size

61 stories / 260 condominiums / 250 keys

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Marriott Naperville SCB provided architectural services for the conversion of the former Naperville Holiday Inn into a full-service Marriott Hotel. The conversion entailed a complete renovation of the existing seven-story building plus a ground floor addition to enlarge and support Marriott’s Great Room lobby concept. The hotel comprises 426 guestrooms and suites featuring new guest baths, guestroom and corridor finishes, and new FF&E throughout. A comprehensive renovation of the ground floor reorganized lobby functions, created a new guest arrival and drop-off, new dining and lobby lounge areas, new social business area, updated ballroom and meeting rooms, and a refurbished fitness and pool area in accordance with Marriott design standards. The project was delivered via a Design/Build process and was executed on an aggressive, fast-tracked schedule. Location

Naperville, IL

Size

285,000 SF / 426 keys

Client

Marriott

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Sheraton Chicago Hotel The Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers is a 1,214-key convention hotel located on the north bank of the Chicago River. The tight urban site accommodates all of the hotel’s spatial requirements in an urban core location, while providing ample vehicular access and spectacular visibility with 400 feet of river frontage. The hotel’s dining, meeting, ballroom, and exhibition facilities stand along four levels of galleries that extend along the full length of the riverfront. Two separate, generous porte cocheres meet the demands of simultaneous individual and convention/group arrivals during peak periods, while the building’s corners are articulated to add exterior visual interest, thoughtfully articulate mass, and provide a variety of interior guest room plans. Location Chicago, IL Size 1,217 keys

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Fulton Market Hotel The Fulton Market Hotel is a boutique, 4-star hotel in Chicago’s emerging West Loop. The design for the 150-key hotel was envisioned as a vibrant sculptural installation amongst the district’s warehouse buildings, introducing a more organic form to rigid gridded aesthetic of the surrounding context. The top four floors would be enveloped by an illuminated, web-like form, creating a vibrant beacon an place-making element for the district. The ground floor features a significant food and beverage program, offering an indoor/outdoor bar and café and a large urban eatery. Nestled under the illuminated exterior element is a bar and lounge with access to a large outdoor terrace, boasting views of Fulton Market and the Chicago skyline. Location Chicago, IL Size 150 keys Client Sterling Bay

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