W Hotel and Marriott Spa & Resort Phu Quoc
A resort architecture precedent showing luxury high-rise hotel towers and a podium integrated directly with a beachfront public realm.
- What we like about this project
- Vertical neon-cyan light fins accentuate the upper crown of the W Hotel tower.
Materials
- glass
- concrete
- aluminum
- stucco
Visual identifiers
- twin-towers
- coastal-resort
- horizontal-balconies
- podium-base
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- luxury
Visual tags
- hospitality
- coastal
- high-rise
- luxury-resort
- mixed-use
- Geometry
- Two high-rise towers sit atop a multi-level podium base, featuring continuous horizontal balconies and vertical accent lighting on the primary tower crown.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with continuous cantilevered balconies and vertical fin accents.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame core-and-slab construction for high-rise towers.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale resort development featuring multi-story towers and podiums towering over small pedestrian figures on the beach.
- Lighting
- Warm late-afternoon sunlight catches the glass facades, contrasting with the soft ambient dusk light and glowing vertical signage elements.
- Atmosphere
- A warm, vibrant tropical evening resort atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Coastal beachfront site with tropical palm landscaping integrated into both the ground level and podium terraces.
- Spatial experience
- The composition transitions from the foreground sandy beach and human activity up to the massive scale of the resort podium and hotel towers.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense horizontal banding from floor slabs and balconies stacked across the vertical towers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial hospitality architecture
- Program
- Hotel and resort complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, concrete, aluminum, stucco
- Visual identifiers
- twin-towers, coastal-resort, horizontal-balconies, podium-base
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, luxury
- Visual tags
- hospitality, coastal, high-rise, luxury-resort, mixed-use
- Geometry
- Two high-rise towers sit atop a multi-level podium base, featuring continuous horizontal balconies and vertical accent lighting on the primary tower crown.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with continuous cantilevered balconies and vertical fin accents.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame core-and-slab construction for high-rise towers.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale resort development featuring multi-story towers and podiums towering over small pedestrian figures on the beach.
- Lighting
- Warm late-afternoon sunlight catches the glass facades, contrasting with the soft ambient dusk light and glowing vertical signage elements.
- Atmosphere
- A warm, vibrant tropical evening resort atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Coastal beachfront site with tropical palm landscaping integrated into both the ground level and podium terraces.
- Spatial experience
- The composition transitions from the foreground sandy beach and human activity up to the massive scale of the resort podium and hotel towers.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense horizontal banding from floor slabs and balconies stacked across the vertical towers.
- Style reading
- Contemporary commercial hospitality architecture
- Program
- Hotel and resort complex
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture