TOURISM

My Cocoon, Mykonos Island

September 12, 2020|Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2020 - Winner, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Greece, Hospitality, Interior, Tourism|

What happens when you blend the function of a Japanese capsule hotel with the traditional Cycladic aesthetic? My Cocoon, Greece’s first boutique hostel! The clients, who are themselves Hosteling aficionados, positively surprised us by requesting this groundbreaking typology at a premium location within the City of Mykonos. We responded to the challenge by studying very carefully various hostel typologies from around the world, trying to establish a good understanding of
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Heritage Hotel Maškovića Han, Pakoštane

September 12, 2020|Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2020 - Winner, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Croatia, Hospitality, Interior, Tourism|

Situated on the Adriatic Sea in the small town of Pakoštane, the Heritage Hotel Maškovića Han grants easy access to the surrounding nature and enables wonderful views. The construction of the hotel complex was completed in 2017. As the biggest monument of Turkish architecture on Croatian ground, a former luxurious dignitary residence and inn, it is now in its renovated state a modern and stylish Heritage Hotel. As such it
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Тhe House of Bread, Baldevo

August 25, 2020|BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Bulgaria, Creative story and identity as experience, Tourism|

This small guest house has an exciting story where are woven symbols of time, place and men’s dreams. Years ago, the investor turned an abandoned rural supermarket into his first bread oven. Today he owns the most high-tech bakery in Southeast Europe, but the warm memory of his first oven nestled next to the old village church brought us together to create a place to keep and practice authentic
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Aqua Paradise Resort, Nessebar

August 25, 2020|Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Bulgaria, Tourism|

Hotel complex Aqua Paradise Resort together with the eponymous aquapark are the largest in volume and investment project in Bulgaria in the field of tourism. The impressive three-lane concept of the main hotel body and the pulsating concentricity of the whole complex is a mix of symbols and messages defined by the local identity and multiculturе of a new generation of architecture. The horizontal design of the building and the
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Villa Charissa, Imerovigli, Santorini

August 25, 2020|Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Greece, Tourism|

Influenced by the island’s traditional architecture, Villa Charissa blends into the natural landscape particularities while proposing a contemporary approach to a cave house concept. The residence, carved on the Caldera front, offers unobstructed view of the volcano and the Aegean Sea. The outdoor space is surrounded by built-in structures: a pool, two relaxing corners and the entrance to the cave house. Inside the villa, the most striking feature of the
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Herbal village, Gornji Grad

August 25, 2020|BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Creative story and identity as experience, Slovenia, Tourism|

In the heart of the small village Gornji Grad is a white baroque cathedral, the largest in Slovenia. Behind it, on a former monk estate, is a charming herbal garden. A short walk away is the herbal house. Join their designers, guardians and herbalists Maja and Amanda on their private herbal path. Experience the magical world of herbs that takes you to your inner world. The design and guiding
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DasMax Boutique Hotel, Seefeld

August 25, 2020|Architecture and design as experience, Austria, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Tourism|

The MAX is a lovingly designed boutique hotel situated in the heart of Seefeld in Tirol. Instead of “kitschy alpine effects”, guests can expect a simple and modern ambience that convinces with small details and high quality. The rooms are compact but cozy. Thanks to the cooperation with BOCONCEPT, PROLICHT and KVADRAT, a particularly harmonious and high-quality interior design has been realized. The top floor offers the guests a
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Camping Stella Maris Swimming Pool and Reception, Umag

August 19, 2020|Architecture, Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Croatia, Public and commercial architecture, Tourism|

Stella Maris Camping is located in a thick pine forest in Umag, costal town in Istria, Croatia. The client's task was to enrich the camp's offer with a new swimming pool with accompanying amenities, and to integrate it with a new reception for the camp. The project was created in co-operation with the civil engineering office IF Projekt d.o.o. from Rovinj, which was in charge of the arrangement of the
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Hotel and Winery Roxanich, Motovun

August 19, 2020|Architecture, Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Croatia, Public and commercial architecture, Tourism|

Roxanich Hotel and Winery is located in the medieval town of Motovun, in the very heart of Istria. The project is the result of continuous urban flow and uninterrupted activity of levelling old urban hierarchies, sweeping away defunct spatial relations, erasing the need for prior spatial zoning according to a priori defined, strictly delimited utility. Rather, the architectural typologies, grounded in function, lose their centuries old role and given role.
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Grand Park Hotel Rovinj

August 16, 2020|Architecture, Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Croatia, Public and commercial architecture, Tourism|

In order to blend into the existing forest, the floors of the hotel offset to follow the slope of the site and form large terraces, Mediterranean gardens, pools and sundecks. Great significance in the hotels’ view was given to five pine trees that have been growing on the site for over half a century. The congress hall overlooks the Rovinj peninsula through the largest glass window in Europe. Wellness zone
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Hotel Briig, Split

August 13, 2020|Architecture, Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Croatia, Public and commercial architecture, Tourism|

Bačvice is a historic quarter of Split, and the specificity of this location offers the possibility of setting high criteria when creating a new hotel. Strict regulations and rigid spatial rules though offer little opportunity beyond typical solutions. Despite such strictly defined positions, the location of the hotel retained its green identity in the form of a ring garden. Highlighted contrast, uniqueness and total design are important features of this
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La Viarte Winery, Udine

August 13, 2020|Architecture, Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Italy, Public and commercial architecture, Tourism|

LaViarte winery is located in heart of the wine area of Colli Orientali del Friuli. The project invested the areas dedicated to the reception of guests: in 2017 the renovation of the guestrooms was completed, while in early 2019 a new wing dedicated to the tasting area opened. The main objective was to create a space in direct contact with the surrounding natural environment of the vineyards to offer an
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