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STEWART ROMBERGER KITE
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HOSPITALITY & WELLNESS
HISTORY In 1959, Richard Selje and Robert Bond cofounded Selje & Bond Design Consultants. The firm was created to provide industrial product design including architectural products, commercial furniture design, graphic design, brand development and commercial interior design. The firm later grew into Stewart, Romberger & Associates (SRA), South Pasadena.
Simultaneously, Robert W. Kite, AIA, and William Overpeck, formed Kite and Overpeck Architects, Beverly Hills. The firm became known for such iconic buildings as the original design for the Beverly Hillcrest Hotel, completed in 1965; Wallachs Music City, Hollywood; and 9000 Sunset Building, West Hollywood.
Inspired to follow in his father’s footsteps, Robert’s son, Brian A. Kite, formed the successor firm to Kite and Overpeck Architects known as Kite and Associates, Santa Monica where he continued with significant hospitality commissions including the renovation of the Bay View Holiday Inn, Santa Monica; guest room tower renovation for the Santa Monica Miramar Hotel; and the original Nikko Hotel, Beverly Hills, now the SLS Hotel.
In 2012, SRA and Kite & Associates merged to become Stewart, Romberger & Kite Architects Inc., Los Angeles. With a combined staff of more than thirty professionals, SRK’s integrated practice group has garnered some of the most interesting and challenging hospitality projects in Southern California and beyond.
Projects include the renovation of the Los Angeles Athletic Club; the Red Crescent Hotel, Riyadh; Najran Towne Center, Najran; and the comprehensive renovation and reconstruction of the San Pedro Elks Lodge that was recently destroyed by fire.
Representing our longstanding commitment to excellence in hospitality design, SRK now offers a complete array of services to the hospitality industry in architecture, interior design, planning, program management and brand development.
FIRM PROFILE SRK's single professional purpose is to deliver hospitality design excellence for every project, through strong and collaborative relationships with our clients, colleagues and vendors. In operation for more than 50 years, SRK has amassed an extraordinary array of hospitality and wellness landmarks throughout the United States, Asia and the Middle East. Our work is marked by innovation, environmental sensitivity and financial pragmatism
ARCHITECTURE Ours is an architecture of inspiration, yet geared to client aspirations. SRK’s principals maintain direct leadership in projects, ensuring client satisfaction is achieved from start to finish. As a market sensitive mix between transient residential, assembly, and retail uses, each hospitality project posses its own unique criteria which must be expertly fused together in a single guest serving presentation.
INTERIOR DESIGN SRK interior designs complement their architecture in new and exciting ways to optimize light, color and texture in beautifully appointed spatial environments. Our intention is to revolutionize your thinking and mesmerize your senses.
PLANNING Our project approach is first as planners. This is to ensure continuity of client purposes and to encourage a thorough understanding of the broadly based project goals and perspectives. Whether in the form of site reviews, code analysis or the infusion of specialist engineering disciplines, we will validate the project goals and necessities from the outset and monitor those for achievement throughout the project.
BRAND DEVELOPMENT Down to the finest detail, SRK brand development services are known to become the key ingredient in creating cohesion of all elements of the design. From lifestyle to imagery, merchandizing to logo, our brand development group offer the subtle nuance of brand development and integration to achieve the highest design excellence possible.
LEADERSHIP Brian K. Kite, AIA , President, Managing Principal Brian is a second generation graduate of the University of Southern California School of Architecture and a licensed architect in California since 1980. His expertise in the hospitality and wellness sector have excelled thro ugh projects such as the historic Los Angeles Athletic Club renovation, Park Fifth mixed-use development, Hotel Bel-Air Spa & Villas and Najran Towne Centre Hotel in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Brian provides strategic project development leadership to support SRK Hospitality and Wellness projects, achieving the highest level of design excellence and building performance possible.
Gabe Avalos, CCID, Principal, Director of Operations Gabe has over 32 years of architectural and interior design experience with a primary focus on project management and corporate project development. He is responsible for overseeing design direction and management of staff, efficient project control, project organization and the coordination of scheduling, budgeting, and documentation through completion of the project. Gabe, a graduation of the Pomona School of Architecture at California Polytechnic University Pomona, is certified by the California Council for Interior Design (CCID).
Warren Romberger, CCID, Principal, Business Development Warren brings to each of his projects an extensive background in all phases of project management and administration. His long record of excellent client relations is due in part to his ability to anticipate and correct problems in their early stage, keeping project on schedule and within budget. Warren’s professional associations include the American Society of Interior Designers, Los Angeles Headquarters Associations, the Los Angeles Business Group and the California Council for Interior Design.
Oni Lazarus, CCID, Associate Principal, Hospitality Leader Oni received her Bachelor Degree in Landscape Architecture and started her career in the construction/design industry in Malaysia. She established an understanding for the work culture and also the technical aspects of design in Asia. In 2005, Oni relocated to the United States, shifting her focus to the world of hospitality design. During her time as an FF&E designer at well known and respected hospitality design firms in Los Angeles, Oni has been a team leader on many projects, including hospitality, luxury residential, and boutique interior design.
Hospitality & Wellness The iconic Elks Lodge San Pedro originally constructed in 1965 was tragically destroyed by fire in early 2014. SRK was retained to redesign and reconstruct this facility so that it can be put back into service to the community.
Located atop San Pedro on Cumbre Drive, SRK’s comprehensive new plan is state-of-the art in every aspect while maintaining the lodge’s historically recognized facade. The Club will contain significant member banquet rooms, a service bar and dance floor, as well as a new private member lounge and bar.
ELKS LODGE NO.966 San Pedro, CA
HOTEL BEL-AIR SPA & VILLAS* Bel-Air, CA The Hotel Bel-Air’s well established and recognized reputation for excellence and for unequalled luxury demands a spa facility that will solidly enhance the Hotel’s position within the luxury spa market. The Hotel Bel-Air Spa building is designed to reflect the existing architectural character and building style of the Hotel Bel-Air’s 1930 historical Chalon’s Court Area.
Hospitality & Wellness The building style is a romantic expression of the inherited mission style that has evolved, been refined and congealed into Spanish vernacular vocabulary design style so prevalent of California. While remaining true to the early period of colonial Southern California buildings, aesthetically the building design provides historic clues of a more refined Mediterranean origin intended to blend harmoniously with the design of the existing hotel.
Hospitality & Wellness The LA Athletic Club 5th and 6th Floor Renovation Project constitutes a comprehensive modernization of levels five and six to create new, enhanced spa facilities for its members and staff to serve the functions of the club on those levels.
As envisioned, the project consists of the selective demolition and redeployment of consolidated men’s and women’s locker and shower facilities on the 5th floor as well as the selected demolition and deployment of new spa treatment facilities, hair salon, bar, dining, exercise, and pool related enhancements on the 6th floor.
LOS ANGELES ATHLETIC CLUB SPA Los Angeles, CA
SANTA MONICA MIRAMAR HOTEL BLOCK Santa Monica, CA The vision that was developed included the creation of an urban seaside village, containing a mix of both public and private uses with iconic “wow� architecture recognized worldwide with unparalleled amenities.
Hospitality & Wellness The proposed development included one five-plus star full service world class 104-key suite boutique hotel with 101 suites and 3 bungalows; iconic design, emblematic of a wave reflecting the ocean environment, with exterior faรงade landscaping and a 10-story waterfall among many features. The program included ultra-chic 11,000 square feet of meeting spaces with state-of-the-art technology, telecommunications, and ultra-luxurious board rooms and is LEED certified to the highest feasible standard, including photo-voltaics, and an artistic rooftop cogeneration. windmill feature.
Hospitality & Wellness The $18– million renovation of the Lake Arrowhead Resort and Spa transformed a simplistic mountain lodge to a sophisticated, upscale, fullservice resort located amongst the San Bernardino Mountains in Lake Arrowhead, CA. The project included renovations for the lobby, lakeview terrace, picturesque dining space, grand stairway to the second floor guest room level and elegantly updated guest, corner, and Presidential Suites.
The renovation also included a new 66 seat main dining area, 55 seat bar lounge, and an exhibition style private dining room that seats 24; with a floor-to-ceiling wine wall as its centrepiece.
LAKE ARROWHEAD RESORT AND SPA Lake Arrowhead, CA
RED CRESCENT LUXURY HOTEL DESIGN Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Hospitality & Wellness The unique 48– story five-star hotel contains 368 keys, including five Presidential Suites and two Royal Suites. Program elements include a dynamic lobby lounge, serene Japanese gardens with dancing waters, a grand ballroom, board rooms, a prayer hall, fitness and treatment centers, swimming pools and media room. The design concept expands the notion of an oasis as a respite along historic trade routes in the middle of the desert with fabulous dining, recreation, luxurious accommodations and extraordinary service gathered in on premier location surrounded by rippling waters and palm trees. Our building’s facades are designed to represent the reflection of palm trees over rippling water in the oasis.
Hospitality & Wellness Park Fifth, a proposed mixed-use development, was conceptualized to pursue the very intense, high density, housing boom in the Downtown Los Angeles area. The project consisted of a 38story luxury hotel tower with over six stories of underground parking and a direct access point to the existing Pershing Square “Red Line� Metro Station. The project entailed 20,000 square feet of retail, full complement of hotel and residential amenities and approximately 1,2000 parking spaces for a grand total of 1,200,00 square feet.
PARK FIFTH HOTEL* Downtown Los Angeles, CA
Hospitality & Wellness The Najran Towne Centre includes a central mixed-use building, full service hotel, mid service hotel and a central park, all connected by a pedestrian walk. To the West of the central mixed-use building rises the full service hotel, which includes a restaurant and bar, and is topped with a pool and spa, and the mid-service hotel. A raised cornice element gives character to these building and folds along the façade to connect with the canopy along the curved pedestrian walk. This gesture frames the entrance to the full service hotel’s restaurant and lounge from the central park.
NAJRAN TOWNE CENTRE HOTEL Najran Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
PARTIAL PROJECT LIST
Beverly Hillcrest Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA
Olympic Spa, Los Angeles, CA
Harbor College PE and Wellness Center, Harbor City, CA
Park Plaza Hilton Hotel, Monterey Park, CA
SLS Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA
Pasadena Executive Suites Study, Pasadena, CA
El Capitan Eco Resort, Goleta, CA
Orleans Timeshare, Las Vegas, NV*
Bay View Holiday Inn Renovation, Santa Monica, CA
Hilton Interior Renovations, Burbank, CA
St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and Spa, Dana Point, CA*
Plante Deconjunto Remodel, Shanghai, China
Mission Inn Renovation Study, Riverside, CA
Hilton Interior Renovations, Ontario, CA
Palm Springs Sheraton Renovation, Palm Springs, CA
AT Hotel, Shanghai, China
Beverly Hills Hotel Crystal Ballroom Renovation, Beverly Hills, CA
Encinitas Hotel, Encinitas, CA
Hyatt On Sunset, West Hollywood, CA
Olympic/Bundy Hotel & Office Study, West Los Angeles, CA
Copacabana Resort Hotel Study, Acalpulco, Mexico
Mandalay Beach Princess Resort Design, Oxnard, CA
El Pueblo Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Newporter Resort, Newport, CA
Glendale Hotel Feasibility Study, Glendale, CA
Nikko Hotel at Beverly Park, Los Angeles, CA
Le Meridien Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA
Orange Hotel Study, Santa Ana, CA
Cal Expo Hotel Design Study, Sacramento, CA
Palm Springs Oasis Hotel Study, Palm Springs, CA
Holiday Inn Renovation, Redondo Beach, CA
Cape Colinas Hotel Study, Dallas, TX
Colorado Place Hotel Design, Santa Monica, CA
Candy Cane Inn remodel and Addition, Anaheim, CA
Holiday Inn Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Blackstone Hilton Interior Renovations, Irvine, CA
* denotes project associated with other firms
CONTACT INFORMATION Brian Kite Managing Principal 310.562.9196 bkite@srkarchitectsinc.com
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