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| Marchitecture 1.01 What do you get when you combine, award-winning nightclub design, unique high-style entertainment concepts, lifestyle design, and high-end concept development? BIGTIME DESIGN STUDIOS Bigtime Design was the studio was responsible for the concept development, strategic marketing, and world-renowned award winning nightclub design of crobar worldwide. Globally known for designing and branding the international award-winning brand of crobar nightclubs, Bigtime Design Studios has now taken their unique vision to the public. Drawing from 20 years of experience in design, architecture and high end hospitality concepts, Fortis has set his sights on a much loftier goal - to combine, fashion, music, branding, and design into one package. The wheels are already in motion with the company's latest projects as interior architects for the Morgans Hotel Group's Mondrian on South Beach, a full scale re-branding of the UK's dance club mecca Gatecrasher, and a Best Interior Design award nomination for the Cameo Theater and a 2008 Club World award for best interior renovation. His catchphrase for this unique melting pot is Marchitecture.SM Whether re-branding an established brand such as Gatecrasher or designing a Florida Modern luxury residence, a common thread appears in all of Bigtime's work. Simply, there is sociology to good design. Whether dancing, shopping, eating or checking into a boutique hotel, Fortis finds that how people move through space, how they experience the journey, and how they interact with their surroundings - though at times ethereal - are all built on the same foundation. Describing their unique design philosophy Fortis said, "People might ask what kind of social or political dislocation our designs represent. If you look around any significant design you will find that a successful space can be interpreted as a social and political monologue where each user reacts with whatever emotions he or she already possess. I encourage design to react with you, NOT to you." BTDs is a collaborative studio, armed by a team of visionaries from the creative arts, architecture, design and nightlife marketing. It is this combination of resources that when focused on branded design, concept development and architecture, creates a story that is told and savored like a good book, page by page. The process is simple. Create a lasting experience where the big things create the experience, yet the little things create the memory. For this Bigtime Design Studios is headed just there - the Big Time. |
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Callin Fortis is a nightlife legend. For over twenty years, Fortis-created nightclubs have dominated the world's nightlife scene. As designer and creator of such iconic clubs as crobar, 
Lamas and Fortis have collaborated together beginning in 2003 with Lamas' work on