The challenge of designing interior and architecture for Crown Metropol, Australia’s largest and newest hotel was welcomed by Bates Smart.
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Jury Citation: Emil Sodersten’s landmark 1936 Hunter Street building, which housed the former City Mutual Society’s banking chamber and a utilitarian basement space, were transformed into two unique dining experiences, responding to different briefs, menus and base building spaces.
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Bates Smart has won the Award for Hospitality Design at the 2011 Australian Interior Design Awards for Crown Metropol, Melbourne.
"This must surely be Sydney's most glamorous accomodation," says Susan Kurosawa in the Australian Financial Review.
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We are delighted to announce another triumph for Crown Metropol.
Bates Smart won the Best Hospitality Award at the inaugural Belle Coco Republic 2011 Interior Design Awards for Crown Metropol Hotel.
The Teak Room is a membership club offering of the Crown brand. Bates Smart’s architectural façade and interior décor has created a revitalised identity for the Teak Room.
Bates Smart has won the Commercial Architecture Award at the AIA Victorian Architecture Awards 2011.
The jury citation reads “Crown Metropol is characterised by a controlled and considered fluidity of form.”
Crown Metropol has won a Commercial Architecture Award at the AIA (Vic) Awards 2011.
As this distinctive hotel nets another award, of which we are immeasurably proud, we thought this was a good time to look at the team behind the success.
This tantalizing teaser led a team from Bates Smart Melbourne and Sydney offices to the annual Australia and New Zealand Pacific Hotel Industry Conference at the Sydney Hilton.
For two days we were immersed in panel discussions of current hotel development forecasts within the Australian, New Zealand and Pacific region.
Bates Smart have released the concept designs for the lobby and hotel rooms at 111+222, Brisbane.
Project Director, Philip Vivian say "Our design tries to capture a feeling of sub-tropicality within the glamour of a luxury hotel while responding to the building's design concept."
Vote here for Crown Metropol or Maze Restaurant fitout in the inaugural Melbourne City Design Awards.
Crown Metropol has been shortlisted in the Holiday category in the World Architecture Festival Awards.
The awards attracted a record 700 entries from 59 countries and will be judged in Barcelona in November this year.
Bates Smart Director Philip Vivian, has just returned from the 2011 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat world conference in Seoul on the topic of 'Why Tall? Green, Safety and Humanity'.
Club 23 is a luxurious “ultra lounge” located atop Crown’s new Mahogany Room extension on Level 3 of Crown Towers Hotel, Melbourne.
Led by Interior Design Director Jeff Copolov, the Bates Smart team has distilled the essence of the world's most alluring clubs to create Melbourne's chicest ultra lounge.
Following a design competition Bates Smart was recently appointed for a new legal fitout for Corrs Chambers Westgarth’s Sydney offices, with fitouts in Melbourne and Perth to follow.
The Bates Smart designed Level 39 has been awarded best VIP Gaming Room at the 2012 Fifth International Gaming Awards.