Designing the World’s Best Resorts

There are few architectural projects more complex and alluring than resorts. Whatever their form (boutique, casino, golf, spa. thematic, urban, timeshare or residential), the world’s best resorts manage to delight their guests, satisfy their owners, and impact their surroundings in a being applied to the design of future resorts, where the dreams of guests can come true in destinations that are underwater, floating above the ground, or circling our planet in a low -earth orbit. This book, part of IMAGES’ highly suiccessful Designing the World’s Best Series, showcases the design work of Wimberly Allison Tong &Goo, (WATG) the world’s number one expert in creating places where people stay and play. Having specialized in resort design for over half a century, the firm has produced such international landmarks as: The Palace of the Lost City in South Africa; Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzin-so; Disney’s Grand Floidian Resort and Spa in Orlando; and the renovation of Claridges in London.