Bob Magazine, a South Korean publication, includes rich content focusing on global designers. This is an innovative interior design journal with a portfolio style, written in both English and Korean,
FINALIST: As the city’s first rooftop bar and lounge, panoramic views of Fort Lauderdale are only one highlight of the upscale concept, which is enveloped in green foliage set against
Bigtime’s ‘CASH ONLY’ project is an immersive nightlife experience set in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and finds its design cue embedded in the past with a heartbeat that beats with what
Hospitality Design(HD) magazine announces the finalists of the its inaugural HD Nightlife Awards, which honor some of the most innovative projects around the globe, spanning Nightclub, Hotel Bar or Lounge,
For Callin Fortis, principal at Miami-based Bigtime Design Studios, the trick was keeping that warehouse vibe throughout. “Our goal was to create an interior that felt like a rediscovered 19th-century
RECOGNIZED DESIGN EXCELLENCE – NEWH, Inc. is pleased to present the NEWH Top ID list for 2018. Each NEWH Chapter board was invited to participate in this exciting program to
Executives with Bigtime Design Studios, a creative brand-centric firm, believe that most developers have a vision that is often difficult to articulate throughout the project. Their unique process starts with
An international team, including... Bigtime Design Studios of Miami... designed the latest Carnival ship, the Vista. Some outside firms have a niche. For example, Bigtime Design specializes in restaurants and
The hotel was designed by Big Time Design Studios and the guest rooms are spread across four buildings, featuring a modern gray and wood color scheme with tropical splashes of color.
The hotel was designed by Big Time Design Studios and the guest rooms are spread across four buildings, featuring a modern gray and wood color scheme with tropical splashes of color.
Each year Hospitality Design magazine holds the prestigious HD Awards to recognize excellence in architecture and interior design. Bigtime Design Studios was chosen as a finalist for it's work on
The design story required an authentic, re-purposed and yet sophisticated finish that presented a challenge in incorporating thematic design elements while avoiding a final ‘theme venue’ feel.
When Callin Fortis took over Neo in 1982, Lincoln Park had no Gaps, no pet boutiques, and no day cares. It was a nightlife hub, with cheap rents and 4 AM bars
Bob Magazine, a South Korean publication, includes rich content focusing on global designers. This is an innovative interior design journal with a portfolio style, written in both English and Korean, and targets the global market. BTD projects are featured on both the front and back cover, table of contents and over two dozen pages of project details featuring BTDs hospitality, hotel, restaurant and nightclub designs. Below is an excerpt from the magazine.
To view the full magazine feature click here or view below (full screen option).
“Bigtime Design Studios is a creative group that is not bound to a definite way. They create a style that will last a long time in people’s memories that are active in various fields such as restaurants, hotels and nightclubs by applying each of the necessary elements that are separated by space usage. In addition, they try to include the story in space to create exclusive uniqueness and atmosphere for each project and to draw reaction. Among them, the appearance of decorating the entrance wall is remarkable while the old fashioned accessories are harmoniously combined. And it offers intense visual effects with antique elements, customized lighting and colorful graffiti all over the place, and it also shows a unique space that reveals the sensitivity of Bigtime Design Studios. By contrast, welcomes people with an extremely comfortable and natural appearance. The lobby is designed with planned pattern, configuration and recycled materials to allow local feeling. Their performance is very anticipated who wish to meet the needs of the clients and add value to every project.
Bigtime Design Studios deals with various fields of design including interior, branding and logo design. Is there particular reason or purpose that you have started with these various design? We believe that design driven concepts are akin to a great book. They should be savored one page at a time. When we create a concept we begin with what is sounds like, not what it looks like. When we can articulate what the story is only then can we design the process with which the pieces all start to make sense. By incorporating all facets of the design process, including branding and identity we can control the brands message through the entire process.”
SOURCE ARTICLE: Hospitalitydesign.com
FINALIST: As the city’s first rooftop bar and lounge, panoramic views of Fort
Lauderdale are only one highlight of the upscale concept, which
is enveloped in green foliage set against the naturally informed
design, including a 50-foot-long bar made of white oak and
Moroccan mosaic tile—a nod to the eclectic ethos of the space.
Bigtime’s CASH ONLY nightclub in Florida is a modern uptake on vintage art elements.
Bigtime’s ‘CASH ONLY’ project is an immersive nightlife experience set in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and finds its design cue embedded in the past with a heartbeat that beats with what was, what is and what will be. Fashion, art, music, industry, loves you is the defining core to the acronym F A M I L Y. a cross-cultural music and design platform melds several styles of music both live and recorded.
Miami based design studio Bigtime re purposes a massive 30′ marquee sign as the chandelier surrounded by shimmer screen.as the concept is inherently analog, an exterior sign controller allows you to operate the letters as they are a kinetic C H A – C H I N G sculpture. the original pattern consists of wilson art materials that skin both bars along with 2000 8 track tapes curated over the course of the development.
Hospitality Design(HD) magazine announces the finalists of the its inaugural HD Nightlife Awards, which honor some of the most innovative projects around the globe, spanning Nightclub, Hotel Bar or Lounge, and Music/Events Space.
A talented and accomplished panel of industry professionals selected this year’s HD Nightlife Awards winners and finalists….
Rooftop @1WLO awarded as finalist at HD Nightlife Awards.
You’d never know it by looking at it, but with a red brick exterior, masses of searing windows and three rollup garage doors, the structure that houses Township restaurant is a new-build. Meant to fit unobtrusively into its surroundings – a train yard that’s being repurposed into an entertainment district in downtown Tallahassee – the space offers communal dining inside and a variety of outdoor options, with a total of 8,000 square feet that seats 275.
For Callin Fortis, principal at Miami-based Bigtime Design Studios, the trick was keeping that warehouse vibe throughout. “Our goal was to create an interior that felt like a rediscovered 19th-century factory,” he says.
The idea of endowing the decor with the look of a historical factory was impressively executed here.
SOURCE ARTICLE: Newh.org
RECOGNIZED DESIGN EXCELLENCE – NEWH, Inc. is pleased to present the NEWH Top ID list for 2018. Each NEWH Chapter board was invited to participate in this exciting program to recognize and promote the best in our industry.
This prestigious honor is determined by the chapter boards with consideration of a firm’s quality design work in the hospitality industry along with membership and support the firm has provided the NEWH chapter. This exclusive recognition is NEWH’s way of supporting and promoting our Designer membership. Not only are firms acknowledged by their local community as a leader in hospitality design, they are also celebrated internationally across the vast network of professionals in the industry!
Miami Beach’s Washington Park Hotel, which softly opened last year, officially celebrated its grand opening with the launch of its staple bar and restaurant Employees Only, which also has locations in New York City and Singapore.
The hotel was designed by Big Time Design Studios and the guest rooms are spread across four buildings, featuring a modern gray and wood color scheme with tropical splashes of color.
It’s a t(r)iki situation to blend contemporary design with tropical aesthetics but the Postcard Inn Hotel in Islamorada, Florida proves it can be done beautifully. Recently renovated by Bigtime Design Studios, the former fishing resort is now a boutique hotel that infuses modernity into a building with historic roots dating all the way back to the 1960s.
Design draw: To keep the hotel from looking too much like a fishing resort, Bigtime Design Studios added new furniture, fixtures, and décor that give the hotel a more updated look & feel.
Each year Hospitality Design magazine holds the prestigious HD Awards to recognize excellence in architecture and interior design. Bigtime Design Studios was chosen as a finalist for it’s work on the Postcard Inn Resort located in Islamorada, Florida. As part of that recognition, finalists and winners are featured in Hospitality Design’s publication. You can view the magazine in it’s entirety or the PDF including only our project below. Thanks to everyone at Bigtime for your contributions to this project.
Designed as the largest Carnival ship to date, Carnival Vista will accommodate 3,936 guests and offer various industry firsts.
Other new features include Carnival’s first New England-inspired Seafood Shack, the line’s first onboard brewery RedFrog Pub, an expanded Havana Bar and a new Havana Pool. Meanwhile, the ship’s main dining rooms, Reflections and Horizons, have been completely redesigned by BigTime Design Studios.
Housed in a ten thousand square foot, heavy timber frame this nautical space served as an inspiration for this project. Skinned with Cedar panels, the ‘Post and Beam’ architecture was articulated to create the spirit of the skeleton of a mighty steamer. The bar location, under the ‘bell tower,’ provided a 30’ expanse of soaring ceiling to create a Swarovski inspired crew oar sculpture. Salvaged crew oars with original boat, numbers and colors are arranged around a black, spiral, steel frame like crystals draped on a delicate chandelier. This monolithic sculpture is nineteen feet tall and weighs in at just under a ton. The upscale waterfront theme continues with demising walls of ship rope and steel turnbuckles mortised into the floor. The design story required an authentic, re-purposed and yet sophisticated finish that presented a challenge in incorporating thematic design elements while avoiding a final ‘theme venue’ feel.
The lobby of this boutique hotel is on the sight of a former gas station on your way to the Florida Keys. The building, though new has a modicum of GOOGI architecture meant to evoke a road trip escape as you pull up. Located directly on the Pacific, this fishing resort was meant to preserve its historic roots from the 60’s through today and beyond. The ceiling is repurposed drift wood that was salvaged from the sights previous tenant. The light fixtures are representative of the crab and lobster pots that generations of men fed their families as Florida Key’s pioneers. The Center core of the space is the herringbone and sand cement tile surrounded by oversize concrete natural tiles. The intention was to bring the water and sand as a ripple directly into the lobby as you enter. The focal point is the reception desk.
When Callin Fortis took over Neo in 1982, Lincoln Park had no Gaps, no pet boutiques, and no day cares. It was a nightlife hub, with cheap rents and 4 AM bars and 24-hour diners—”like New York,” says Fortis.
His own nightclub, one of the last of its generation in the area, is now sandwiched between a preschool and an Urban Outfitters in an alley on Clark Street, just south of Fullerton Avenue, less than a mile west of the Lincoln Park Zoo.
“He’s been a longtime partner of ours,” says Fortis of Steve Harris, one of the owners of Debonair. “It’s very much an inside family thing; it’s not a promoter deal. We also care about the people that work here. We’re trying to keep those kids employed while we find something else. That matters to us. It does mean something that those bartenders have a place to go the minute we close.”
Fortis fondly recalls the motorcycles that would line up in Neo’s alley during the club’s peak years. “Neo was constantly an adventure,” he says. “We used to do all of these underground, alternative fashion shows with local designers. We would give them a place to show their art and their magic. I remember a group of guys that had designed this really funky swimwear line, and somebody opened the front door, and these guys rode their models in on dirt bikes into the jam-packed club. I remember watching that in slow motion as these two guys rode their motorcycles through a jam-packed Neo at two o’clock in the morning. There were so many moments like that that I think were precursors to modern-day nightlife.”
Neo had been open for just two years when Fortis moved in, and at the end of July, it will close its doors after 36 years in operation.
