Share this on

Mexico City Designers of W Hotel Honored

Hotel wins prestigious National Interiors Award.

Dave Platter -- Interior Design, 6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

The W Mexico City, the hotel chain's first location in Latin America, has garnered the prestigious "2004 National Interiors Award" as well as the "Best Hospitality Interiors" award from the Mexican Association of Interior Designers (AMDI).

New York-based interior designer firm Studio Gaia and the Mexico City office of architecture firm Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz shared the honors at the awards ceremony in Mexico City. The National Interiors Award is a best-of-all-categories prize, indicating that Mexico City's W is considered the single best interior design project in all of Mexico this year.

In the 237 hotel rooms and suites, the typical hotel layout of bath and sleeping areas has been reversed so that natural light to enters into each room through large exterior windows in the bathrooms, which are wrapped with white marble in contrast to the deep red hue of the bedrooms. Walls dividing the two spaces have been left out, creating larger, airier spaces.

On the first level of the hotel are three meticulously designed restaurants, one of which is operated by nightlife impresario Randy Gerber.

Ninety percent of the furniture used in the hotel was manufactured in Mexico City, and locally sourced stone and other materials are used throughout.

Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz also took top honors in the corporate interiors category for designing the offices of BCBA Impulse, a Mexico City real estate development company.