Hospitality: Hotel - Corporate

Best of Year 2009 Winner: Tony Chi and Associates

Best of Year -- Interior Design, 12/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

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Best of Year Winner, Hospitality: Hotel - CORPORATE: tony chi and associates: Park Hyatt Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Call it the year of Tony Chi. First came an induction into Interior Design's Hall of Fame, then this award for the Park Hyatt Shanghai—a project that proves he's every bit worthy of the accolades. Occupying the 79th through 93rd floors of the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, the hotel is the epitome of Chi: hushed drama achieved with a spare palette of such simple, rich materials as limestone, goatskin parchment, and verre églomisé. White plaster glows softly in the ground-level entry; in the sky lobby, on 87, faux tortoiseshell faces the reception desk, surrounded by tall walnut armoires that introduce the residential feel throughout. From the 174 guest rooms to the meeting facilities, pool area, tea salon, café, and formal restaurant, it's a banquet of forms and textures.

JOHNNY MARSH; WILLIAM PALEY; NELSON BICOL; ARDEN LEE; NINAKO OKUYAMA; DAVID SINGER; JÖRN SIEBKE; LILIANA IVANOVSKA: PROJECT TEAM.

Best of Year Merit Awards, Hospitality: Hotel - CORPORATE

Janson Goldstein LLP: Andaz West Hollywood, West Hollywood, CA

Jim Morrison used to hang his hat at the Riot Hyatt, now an Andaz featuring a glass pavilion restaurant addition and guest bathrooms in Calacatta marble with black-walnut seating.

Morgans Hotel Group with Marcel Wanders Studio: Mondrian South Beach Hotel Residences, Miami Beach, FL
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At this Morgans Hotel Group property, the "oversize" fantasy extends from the lobby's spindle columns to the pool area's tented cabanas.

P A L Design Consultants Ltd.: Doubletree by Hilton Beijing, Beijing, China

Commissions from Asian artists range from a lacquered sculpture, silhouetted against a feature wall in the lobby, to the carved wooden panels in reception.