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Atkins has an established reputation of being one of the world’s premier hotel designers with an international portfolio of instantly recognizable signature projects.

Our strength lies in our ability to deliver an appropriate blend of creative design and technical expertise. This capability is particularly relevant in our specialty area of luxury hotels, hotel apartments, and resorts.

With a full complement of in-house teams of architects, structural and building services engineers, sustainability consultants, and other specialists, we are able to offer tailored

services throughout the entire spectrum of design, architecture, sustainability, planning, and approvals.

We transform ideas into reality by effectively managing single or multidisciplinary project teams. We understand the importance of engaging with stakeholders throughout a project’s lifetime and coordinating teams in partnering frameworks.

Our clients include local government authorities, developers, private business establishments, and other international organizations.

Of all the creative disciplines, the design of hotels and resorts is one of the most diverse and sophisticated.

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Who we areAtkins—one of the world’s leading design and engineering firms—delivers a wide range of services to respond to technically challenging and time-critical infrastructure projects and the urgent transition to a low carbon economy. With 17,700 employees in 300 offices throughout the United States and abroad, our size brings significant value to our clients, allowing us to harness the talents of creative professionals to produce outstanding solutions to challenging problems.

We are passionate about what we do and relish the challenge to provide innovate and stimulating hotel design. We are driven by the belief that our surroundings directly influence the quality of our lives, whether in the work place, at home, or in the public spaces in between. This emphasis on the social dimension is fundamental to our design philosophy, which takes as its starting point the acknowledgement that architecture is generated by the needs of people.

Atkins provides the full spectrum of in-house services to our hotel and resort clients:• Architecture • Asset management • Building information modeling (BIM)• Civil engineering • Electrical engineering• Environmental planning• Geomatics• Lighting design • Marine and coastal development • Master planning and urban design • Mechanical engineering • Plumbing engineering• Programming• Structural engineering • Sustainability and environmental consulting• Transportation• Urban planning

What we doWhether it’s the concept for a new skyscraper, the renovation of a hotel, the master plan of a resort, or the improvement of a management process, we plan, design, and enable solutions.

Our dedicated team of hotel specialists has extensive knowledge of hotel design, and we are devoted to creating hotels and resorts on a practical level to craft or reinforce a sense of place that will be part of the legacy for future generations.

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Burj Al Arab ‘Tallest All Suite Hotel in the World’ Guinness Book of World Records2003, Winner Retail/Offices/Commercial Development, Cityscape Awards

Durrat Marina 2008, Best Marina Development - Bahrain, CNBC Property Awards

Jumeirah Beach Hotel 2009, Best Hotel in the Middle East, Business Travellor Award

2009, Best Hotel in the Middle East, Virgin Holidays UK

2009, Top Hotel in the Middle East, Business Traveller Award

Miami Culinary Institute 2012 Hospitality Design Award: Finalist – Green/ Sustainable Project

Regatta Arch Hotel 2010, Prix d’Excellece Award, Nusa Dua Bali, FIABCI

Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental 2009, Future Projects - Commercial (Shortlist), World Architecture Festival

The Address, Downtown Dubai 2011, UAE’s Leading Business Hotel, World Travel Awards

2009, Best New Hotel, World Hotel Awards

2009, Dubai’s Leading Lifestyle Hotel and Middle East’s Leading New Hotel, World Travel Awards

2008, Hotel Business Lounge of the Year, Commercial Interior Design Awards

2008, Neos, Best Leisure and Entertainment Venue, Commercial Interior Design Awards

Zhanjiang Minda Sheraton

2009, Human Habitat Classic Award (for design), Architectural Society of China

Hotel design services Select awards and accolades for hotel and resort projects

Atkins brings together the experience, ingenuity, management skills, and financial acumen to optimize capital projects and deliver complex hotel and resort developments. Our regional teams provide services for the hotel and leisure sectors using local knowledge and relevant international expertise.

Each of our projects is driven by exacting design processes that respond uniquely to each client, context, and place. This approach often results in a unique building or structure that becomes a familiar and symbolic landmark—emblematic of its location and respectful of the unique characteristics of its setting.

Such projects often incorporate a degree of innovation—sometimes social, sometimes technological—and they are particularly successful when both attributes occur simultaneously.

With more than two decades of experience in hospitality design, Atkins has a thorough working knowledge of design guidance

and specific legislation relating to hotel developments. Based on our internally published book Atkins Hotel Guidelines, we have developed a software tool that incorporates standards and regulations for hotel planning and design and generates a schedule of hotel space requirements that serves as a reference during pre-concept and concept design stages.

Our comprehensive understanding of the hierarchy of and relationships between operational functions, coupled with our expertise in international hotel requirements and guidelines, has provided us with unparalleled knowledge of current design thinking and best practices.

We also have a detailed and practical knowledge of methods to translate guidance and legislation into the built form to create facilities that are fit for purpose.

Value and inherent flexibility are other major considerations we incorporate into our solutions. Based on our experience, we consider a number of fundamental factors and concerns to formulate our recommendations on materials and finishes; these include durability, ease of maintenance, and the comparison of short-term costs versus long-term or whole life costs.

We embrace the importance of back-of-house facilities and imaginatively treat these areas—which are the heart of the hotel—to enhance living standards in this “underground” community.

At Atkins, our goal is to provide an ambience that is conducive to work, thus raising morale, increasing staff efficiency, and delivering high levels of productivity and services.


Project 2011-1 Timeshare Resort Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA

Features: 147 key timeshare addition including new activity pools, restaurants, and retail venues

Design services: Architecture, civil engineering, landscape architecture, and structural engineering

Status: Under construction

Located adjacent to the Victorian-style flagship hotel of Walt Disney World Resort, Project 2011-1 is a 147-key timeshare, the first luxury product in the Disney Vacation Club collection. The buildings six floors house studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and grand villa suites in a striking red-gabled building that complements the architecture of the existing resort and sits along the sandy shores of Seven Seas Lagoon.

To accommodate an additional 700 guests, a new water activity pool and cascading water feature will be incorporated along with numerous program enhancements to existing pools, restaurants, and retail venues.

This $65 million development is employing a design-build delivery methodology with an integrated project delivery approach and BIM technology. The building model is being used for design coordination, clash detection, construction scheduling, cost estimating, and asset management.


Xero Gravity Resort & Board Sports Duval County, Florida, USA

Features: 100 key boutique hotel, spa, live music venue, ski-slope, skateboard/bmx park, activity pools, restaurants, and retail venues

Design services: Architecture

Status: Competition entry 2012

Because the city has historically been a hub for maritime trade with Africa, India, and China, it seemed appropriate to borrow from this seafaring heritage—hence the hotel’s theme of the billowing spinnaker sail of a hi-tech J class yacht.

At 1,000 feet in height, the Burj Al Arab is acknowledged as the tallest single structure hotel in the world. It also houses the world’s tallest atrium, which at 600 feet in height addresses the space that is the core of the hotel and provides a constant reminder of location. Access to and from the 202 luxurious duplex bedroom suites is via the wide open balconies that flank two sides of the atrium.

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Burj Al Arab Dubai, UAE

Features: 202 key, 56 story luxury hotel, 1.2 million-square feet

Design services: Architecture and engineering

Status: Built


This proposed mixed-used development offers magnificent views over Al Ain and important local landmarks. The five-star hotel tower, executive apartment tower, and office/commercial tower also includes a basement complex for separate parking facilities for each component.

The existing 100-year-old hotel was renovated and converted into a premier luxury condo/hotel. This prominent local landmark in the heart of the Daytona tourist district includes completely renovated guest rooms, public lobbies, front desk, hotel guest facilities, and food and beverage areas.

Particular attention was paid to the aesthetic goal of the project—to restore the “Old Florida” character and spirit of the original resort while upgrading facility systems to current code. The phased renovation maintained the integrity and intent of the resort’s original classic design, and the newly renovated Plaza is now considered one of the premier resorts in Daytona Beach.

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Al Ain Marriott HotelAl Ain, UAE

Features: 258 key luxury hotel with 8 villas, executive apartment tower, office and commercial buildings totaling 750,000 square feet


Status: Conceptual design

Plaza Resort and Spa Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

Features: 343 key, 14 story luxury condo/ hotel

Design services: Architecture and MEP engineering

Status: Built

Atkins provided complete architectural and engineering design services, as well as cost estimating, civil engineering, and surveying, from programming through construction support, for the Miami Culinary Institute. A model of sustainability and urban stewardship for Miami Dade College, the eight-story building is designed to achieve

LEED Gold certification, and incorporates six cooking/teaching labs, a television studio/demonstration lab, and a full-service restaurant on the top floor. Other spaces include a café, classrooms, and administrative offices. As a modestly scaled yet iconic infill building, this project embodies a new paradigm of urban development and architecture.


Miami Culinary Institute Miami, Florida

Features: LEED Gold, integrated TV production studio, urban infill (1 foot from elevated mass transit), street setback contains café seating and deep injection well of roof rainwater

Design services: Architecture, Engineering,Civil & Landscape Design

Status: Built

Award: 2012 Hospitality Design Award: Finalist – Green/ Sustainable Project

Special Citation, Exciting Spaces, American School and University magazine

Upon completion, the overall hotel layout design will provide 65 finely appointed suites and deluxe suites on single-loaded corridors overlooking the existing golf course and newly constructed Town Center Park. Other accommodations will include state-of-the-art business and meeting rooms equipped with the latest communication system technologies. Level two of the hotel will feature a breakfast restaurant, family swimming pool, pool deck, and a fully equipped fitness center.

This 350,000-square-foot entertainment destination includes retail, restaurant, and nightclub venues in an urban-scale entertainment district adjacent to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Features include the 12-story Mediterranean-style hotel tower with 481 guest rooms and 86 suites with panoramic views, a 145,000-square-foot casino, a 4-acre lagoon-style pool area, 15 restaurants, 16 shops, a poker room, spa, improv comedy club, 10 bars and nightclubs, and the Hard Rock Live concert venue.

Seminole Paradise Hard Rock Hotel & CasinoHollywood, Florida, USA

Features: 350,000-square-foot entertainment desitnation

Design services: Civil engineering

Status: Built


Harmony HotelOsceola County, Florida, USA

Features: 65-suite full service boutique hotel with 15,000-square-foot of retail



This 625,000-square-foot, marina-based resort includes a condominium hotel and apartments, retail and restaurant uses, hotel amenities, and back-of-house functions on previously developed commercial and residential sites.

Each Cay Club resort is intended to have its own distinct identity. The Sarasota Cay Club recreates the relaxed environment of Southern coastal

beach towns, where porch-sitting and strolling are activities at least as important as swimming and sunbathing, with simple beach cottage architecture that takes advantage of the breezes and offers broad views of Sarasota Bay.

The Clearwater Cay Club captures the romance of Venice, with narrow streets, small squares, and canals for gondolas.


Cay Club Resorts and MarinaClearwater and Sarasota, Florida, USA

Features: Marina-based resort condominium hotel evocative of Venice, Italy




Marriott World Center Resort Orlando, Florida, USA

Features: 2,000 guest rooms and suites, 10 restaurants and lounges, 450,000 square feet of event space, golf, full-service spa, tropical pools, waterfalls, whirlpools, and waterslide


Status: Built

AtlanticA will be one of the largest and most innovative multi-use resort communities in the Caribbean and will include more than 3,500 residential units (most with private docks) with plans for 20 hotels, 550 shops and restaurants, and 3 golf courses. The resort will offer a private airport; an internal transportation system designed for water taxis, golf carts, bicycles, and foot trails; a

This golf and spa resort offers endless experiences, from creating lasting family memories to hosting spectacularly executed meetings and events. The resort towers above more than 200 acres of prime lush, green, and beautifully landscaped areas. In this magnificent locale, close to the area’s major attractions, is a resort that offers everything guests could possibly want.

More than 2,000 well-appointed guest rooms and suites serve as relaxing, comfortable retreats for both leisure and business travelers. Ten restaurants

and lounges offer a dazzling array of dynamic culinary experiences. A total of 450,000 square feet of event space draws groups of every size from around the world.

AtlanticA ResortLuperon Bay, Dominican Republic

Features: Mixed use development comprised of hotels, retail, residential, airport, and seaport

Design services: Architectural planning and design, aviation engineering, coastal engineering, drainage design, environmental mitigation, hydrogeology, landscape architecture, master planning, MEP engineering, permitting, site civil engineering, structural engineering, surveying, transportation planning and design, and utilities engineering


harbor with a cruise ship terminal; and a multitude of docking facilities.

Located on the northern tip of the Dominican Republic in the Luperon Bay—one of the few natural harbors and hurricane shelters in the area—the resort community will be a leading yachting destination and the golf capital of the Caribbean.

Pittstown Point Landings is envisioned as a luxurious island resort for the sports fishing enthusiast. Sited on Crooked Island in the southern Bahamas Islands chain, this ambitious, four-phase, low-rise development encompasses an upscale hotel, private yacht marina, exclusive residential area, and existing airstrip.

WaterColor is a southern coastal resort and residential community located directly on the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida. The community includes a mix of single- and multi-family residences; commercial, office, and retail development; and recreational facilities.


WaterColor Beach ResortWaterColor, Florida, USA

Features: 60 key beach front boutique hotel, 1,200 residential units, beach club, and marina club with 20-slip boat dock

Design services: Civil engineering and landscape architecture

Status: Built

Pittstown Point Landings ResortCrooked Island, Bahamas

Features: Boutique hotel, 25 villas, townhomes, clubhouse, retail, and marina

Design services: Architecture and landscape architecture


Situated only minutes from the main gates of Walt Disney World Resort in Kissimmee-St. Cloud, the 65-acre property features 1,400 guestrooms including 118 suites (10 of which are presidential suites), 4 acres of gardens under glass, 380,000-square-feet of meeting and pre-function space (including a 178,000-square-foot exhibit hall), three restaurants, and several entertainment venues.

With its gentle surf, beautiful sunsets, and wide sandy white shores, Clearwater Beach—located in Pinellas County along the west coast of Florida—has been a nationally recognized destination for beachgoers for decades. The creation of Beach Walk, a 2,400-foot-long by 25-foot-wide pedestrian promenade, added entry gateways, public plaza space, unique beach entrances, seaside-inspired public art, outdoor sidewalk cafés, restaurants, hotel courtyards, balconies, and seating areas.

Strategically located seating alcoves, shaded by palm trees, serve as places for rest and conversation and offer activity centers with cast-in-place, glass-tiled chess and backgammon game boards. Lush landscaping includes more than 500 palm trees and thousands of flowering plants. A whimsical stainless steel sundial with interactive mist fountain is the focal point of Sundial Plaza, and on the beach side visitors can purchase gifts, supplies, and refreshments at the Oasis Pavilion.

Gaylord Palms HotelKissimmee, Florida, USA

Features: 1,400 key luxury hotel, meeting spaces, exhibit hall, restaurants, and entertainment venues


Status: Built

Beach WalkClearwater, Florida, USA

Features: 2,400-foot-long beach walk supporting hotels, outdoor cafes, public plazas, and restaurants

Design services: Master planning




The Address Downtown Dubai Dubai, UAE

Features: 1,004 feet high, 63-story five-star hotel and serviced apartments

Design services: Architectural and engineering design

Status: Built

The Address Downtown Dubai is a skyscraper hotel and residential tower located alongside the Dubai Mall, Old Town, and Lake Dubai. At 1,004 feet and 63 stories, it is the 11th tallest building in Dubai and features 196 lavish rooms and 626 serviced residences. The Address Downtown Dubai offers a vast array of gourmet experiences, modern meeting and event venues, a signature spa, a lavishly appointed fitness center, pools, and numerous indulgent amenities and services.

The vertical aerofoil section of the tower rises proudly from a podium of swirling layers, calling to mind a robust seaside headland. The crisp white detailing, the exceptional landscaping of the walkways, concourses and decks, and the glint of stainless steel embellishments contribute to an unmistakable air of elegance that titillates the senses with intrigue and delight. As a result of its superb exterior lighting, the property glitters as evening beckons.

The restrained color palette, the richly articulated plinth levels, and the interaction between the volume of the tower and its dramatic crest all evoke the epitome of 1930s glamour by radiating grace, style, and elegance.

The concept for this low-rise hotel was developed from the award-winning master plan that Atkins proposed for its location, Lin Gang New Town, near Shanghai. Resting on an island in a 1,200-acre circular lake at the center of the new town, the design is both simple and striking and within the 50-foot height limit stipulated by the planning guidelines.


Crowne Plaza Shanghai Harbor City Shanghai, China

Features: 355-bed, five-star business and resort hotel


Status: Built


This unconventional yet functional hotel is typical of modern Beijing’s development.


Four Points by Sheraton Beijing Haidian Yongtai Hotel Beijing, China

Features: 355-room, five-star hotel and 177 serviced apartments


Status: Built

The strong pattern of window openings alludes to the great traditions of Chinese masonry and, in recognition of its potential as a wedding venue, the end elevation incorporates a pattern similar to the “double happiness” character always displayed prominently at Chinese wedding celebrations.


The quarry and hotel combine to form an integrated whole where, governed by restrictions on building height, the hotel’s 17 stories occupy only two levels above ground and barely intrude on the natural beauty for which the area is famous.

At water level are a gym center, swimming pool and spa, restaurants and cafes, and a banqueting center for conference facilities that can accommodate up to 1,000 people. At the lowest point, two room levels are submerged, offering guests a spectacular view into what is in effect a natural fresh-water aquarium.

At ground level, the grass-roofed podium houses hotel and conference center entrances that lead to a glass-clad “river,” which eventually turns into a vertical circulation “waterfall” that cascades down the 260-foot-deep quarry.

Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental Hotel Songjiang, China

Features: Futuristic 388-room, five-star resort and business hotel



This competition-winning design for this resort and business hotel is set in a water-filled quarry.


The project’s buildings have been carefully oriented to optimize the spectacular views. Tower A houses the 537-room Sheraton hotel, atop a podium containing a 1,200-seat banquet hall, restaurants, bars, and reception areas. Tower B accommodates high-grade office space above a podium of entertainment spaces.

The symmetrical hotel and serviced apartment towers face the main road to the east. The larger plan office tower sits behind, facing the apex of the space formed by the other two structures. Such symmetrical arrangements are not uncommon in China, as they protect a great formality and presence to the city.


Zhanjiang Minda Sheraton Zhanjiang, China

Features: 537-room hotel tower, office tower, and dormitory unit



Chengdu Hilton Hotel Chengdu, China

Features: 515-room hotel, office,and apartment tower



This project consists of two independent nine-story hotel towers with a total of 554 rooms and is situated in the heart of Deira business district.

The proportions and massing of this project are based on solid forms with punctured linear voids invoking traditional modern architecture. The lighting design is based on a control philosophy with a choice of efficient light sources that will not only minimise the cost of the installations but the cost of operating them too.


Ibis and Novotel HotelsDubai, UAE

Features: Two independent hotels with shared common space and recreational amenities with a total of 554 rooms

Design services: Architecture, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering design; fire life and safety; acoustics; and project management

Status: Built


Jumeriah Beach Hotel Dubai, UAE

Features: Five-star luxury hotel with 600 rooms and suites

Design services: Architectural and engineering design and construction management

Status: Built

The 700,000-square-feet Jumeirah has become a benchmark for five-star hotels worldwide. Its eye-catching exterior has served as a backdrop for many key events held in Dubai, and the interior houses a wealth of innovative designs.


Consistently ranked among the world’s top hotels.


About Atkins

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As one of the world’s leading engineering and design consulting firms, Atkins has the expertise to undertake challenging, time-sensitive infrastructure projects and respond to the critical need for sustainability. Whether developing concepts for a new skyscraper, improving a rail network, modeling a flood mitigation system, or enhancing a management process, we plan, design, and enable solutions.

From cost and risk planning, feasibility studies, and logistics to impact assessments and stakeholder engagement activity, we plan every aspect of our clients’ projects.

Atkins designsphysical structures such as of�ce towers, schools, bridges, and highways. We also design intellectual capital such as management systems and business processes.

Our clients entrust us with the management of projects, people, and issues, ensuring that deadlines are met, costs are controlled, and success is delivered.

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• 2,800 employees in the United States

• 17,700 employees worldwide

• 70 U.S. offices

• 200 offices in Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific

• Established in 1938

• Founded in America in 1960

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For more information visit www.atkinsglobal.com/northamerica

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• Chief Executive in North America: L. Dean Fox, Major General (USAF, Ret.)

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Benton Rudolph, AIA Buildings Practice Manager Architecture, North America 813.281.7602 [email protected]

Shaun Killa Director Architecture, Middle East and India +971 (4) 4059410 [email protected]

Larry Levis, AIA Ports Architecture Market Leader 305.414.3383 [email protected]

John Wilder II, AIA Hospitality Market Leader 214.914.0158 [email protected]

Fran Boettcher, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Leisure Market Leader 407.806.4192 [email protected]

Tom Wright, RIBA Technical Director Architecture, Europe +44 1372 75 2064 [email protected]

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© 2012 Atkins North America, Inc.

Thank you for considering our hospitality design team for your next project. For additional information, contact us directly at 214.914.0158 to speak with one of our professionals.

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