What are you talking about! They did! Look at that splash of Swolphin orange in the middle, top and under the balconies! It ties it all three structures together!
EXACTLY! You have a uniquely designed world class resort campus and you need to add a third tower....Seems like they would at least try to integrate into the existing style of the resort to make a cohesive property rather than a completely different plain glass box with a little embellishment. There are so many ways they could incorporate the new building into the fabric of the resort without even changing the basic box...Modify the top structure to more resemble the post-modernist Graves architecture, Use the exagerrated awning stripe motif used all over the resort...Waves, Palm leaves... a wealth of design inspirations right in front of them.
Thats ok looking. I really expected something more fantasy looking building like the Swan and dolphin but it’s clean looking design . Now were is my art deco hotel going to go Bobby i ?
There are a lot of good design inspirations that can be found in the Singapore resorts. Many of which are not as playful or outlandish as the Swan and Dolphin, but could be used to make an appropriate looking addition to the resort.Gonna post this design Michael Graves did for Singapore for the bagillionth time in this thread.
I join those above in their lack of enthusiasm for this design. The one nice feature is that I see that some of the rooms will have "wing" floor to ceiling windows where you get views in two directions. Here's an example of how that's used in a different building:Doing some research for work and this popped up. Apologies if it's already been posted but I had never seen this particular piece of concept art. From Tishman EDIT: (not from their website, apologies.)
I'm not suggesting an imitation - I'm talking essence of design. They could do something that's very current, but still pulls a lot of essence from the original works. Graves did that a lot himself with the additions he did to existing buildings. Easy things that could pull these together - some round windows - some color choices - some covered walkways - some overriding large scale geometrics or patterns. And his design group is still around, they could have easily hired them as a consultant (even if they had their own architects) to provide some design suggestions of how to add a third building that would work in harmony with the existing campus of buildings.
I wonder if someone decided to specify floor-to-ceiling windows, thus limiting the architectural options? Not saying that you can't do something interesting with floor to ceiling windows, just that it precludes a bunch of subclasses of post-modern. Economics also probably dictated the L shaped rectangular design on the limited footprint they had to work with, so we couldn't have any interesting shapes like the Swan or the Dolphin. It's unfortunate.
