HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates, unveils the world’s most anticipated hotels, resorts, and spas – The Trump Ocean Club Panama. The Arrival Lobby is grand featuring an open space with 24-foot ceilings and expansive windows for plenty of natural light. From here, guests can be whisked to the Sky Lobby on the 15th floor. This lobby features curving class windows where light seeps in and guests have incredible views of the ocean and city. Designed as a large-scale living room, the Sky Lobby features tropical rugs inspired by …

Makati (Philippines) based Architecture firm, Buensalido Architects recently win a airport competition in Caticlan Island, the gateway to beautiful resort Boracay Island. To achieve this, different pieces of information from the island’s socio-economic profile were converted into line graph form, then superimposed with the timeline from when Boracay was discovered to the present. This act of overlaying formed an undulating grid pattern that ultimately became the basis of the building shell facilitated by digital and parametric modelling. As beaches are basically deposition landforms formed by water currents, the emergent wave-like …

The 20,960 sqm building project stands out through an architecture where wood predominates, both in the structural elements and the façade coverings. This building located towards the lower part of the site, at the edge of a spruce and larch wood, the buildings fade into the vegetation. The project’s main challenge consists in inserting, within the landscape, the large superstructures that are necessary to the trees’ growth. The plan, in the shape of a trefoil cross, is covered with a set of centrings made of glued-laminated timber with stainless steel …

Drucker Architects recently completed beautiful tropical resort in Itacaré Brazil called “Makenna Resort”. The resorts building fits the landscape, radicalizing their potential, thus creating a large belvedere. Expanding dramatically the feeling of horizontal, eliminating the visual field that which is not substantial to the essence of landscape. Floor and ceiling acquire a substantial value. The structural system adopted responds well to the program and enforcement without waivers, without violence as well. A system strict and precise, but also open and flexible.
“The challenge of this project was to transform a natural …

The X2 Resort Kui Buri sited in shoreline on the Gulf of Thailand, designed by local designer Duangrit Bunnag Architects. The resort makes use of invisible wall design – what’s a craggy stone wall to one villa appears as a fence partition to another. Common areas include a large pool, indulgent spa, a fusion restaurant and roof terrace bar that overlooks the sparkling waters of the gulf and a tranquil white-sand beach untouched by development. A smooth wooden boardwalk meanders like a maze through the resort, each twist and turn …

The Bandung Hilton was designed by WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design, sited is at the heart of the city centre, a departure from the late 20th century trend locating resort hotels and villas in the foothills to the North away from the heart of the city. Located near to the Bandung Central Train Station overlooking a large land parcel previously occupied by a military facility, the hotel is a catalyst for revitalization of the Urban Centre. Proximity to the Central train station provides easy access and encourages Indonesians seeking …

The X2 Koh Samui Resort sited in one of the exotic islands in Thailand, on Hua Thanon beach at the far southwest end of the island of Koh Samui in Thailand. Thailand’s X2 (pronounced “cross-to”) resorts are about soul, freedom and simplicity. These credos add up to an earthy philosophy that beautifully continues at X2 Koh Samui, on the Hua Thannon beach on the southeastern coast of Koh Samui island. The newly built resort’s 27 villas rest on a largely undeveloped beach surrounded by old tree growth; the buildings’ sleek, …

The Marina Bay Sands presented by Moshe Safdie Architects, defined as high class living style in Singapore. This building used mixed-use integrated resort that brings together a 2,561-room hotel, convention center, shopping and dining, theaters, museum, and a casino across the water from Singapore’s Central Business District. Safdie designed an urban structure that weaves together the components of a complex program into a dynamic urban crossroads and public meeting place. This new urban place integrates the waterfront promenade, a 74,000 square meter (800,000 square-feet) multi-level retail arcade, and …