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Lord Balfour - SOFI COFFEE - Cafe Design by Bigtime Design Studios

Sofi Coffee

Sofi Coffee is the coffee venue at The Balfour Hotel in Miami Beach's South of Fifth, designed for Morgans Originals as part of our Balfour project, the hotel that won the 2025 INT Award for Hotels. A coffee bar in a great hotel has one job: be the room the...

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The Balfour Hotel, Miami Beach - Hospitality Design by Bigtime Design Studios

The Balfour Hotel

The Balfour Hotel sits in Miami Beach's South of Fifth neighborhood, and it had a reputation to protect. We redesigned the interiors for Morgans Originals to match the address: quiet, confident, and built for people who notice details. The work won the 2025 INT Award for Hotels, recognition judged on...

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Boatyard Restaurant, Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Restaurant Design

Boatyard Restaurant 2.0

Seven years after the original Boatyard won its awards, The Restaurant People asked us to do it again, deeper. Boatyard 2.0 trades nautical brightness for moody sophistication: navy and charcoal, espresso-stained wood, brushed brass, stone and marble, with sweeping arches and a sculptural central bar running the room. The waterfront...

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Runway 84 Restaurant, Fort Lauderdale, FL - Interior Design by Bigtime Design Studios

Runway 84

The year is 1982. Gas is 91 cents, Thriller just dropped, and a certain Fort Lauderdale supper club is becoming a legend. Reimagining an icon means keeping what was, what is, and what will be. We lined the dining room with gangster booths, wrapped it in green, gold, and burgundy...

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John Martins - Coral Gables, Miami, FL - Restaurant Design by Bigtime Design Studios

John Martins

John and Martin brought their Irish magic to South Florida four decades ago, and John Martins is credited as Miami's original Irish concept. Our re-imagining kept the faith: the snugs stayed, the original 40-year-old bar stayed, and the darkness left. In its place, a 12-by-5-foot skylight, an indoor garden, tobacco...

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Tacklebox Fish Market at Love Street, Jupiter, Florida - Restaurant Design by Bigtime Design Studios

Tacklebox

With a commercial fishing dock 500 feet from the front door, nothing is closer from hook to cook than this jewel of a fish market. Colorful cement tile and classic seafood fisheries from around the world inspired this small but mighty fish monger dream shop. Classic subway tile got spiced...

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Topside at Love Street, Jupiter, Florida - Restaurant Design by Bigtime Design Studios

Topside

Topside is a rooftop bar above Love Street with the Jupiter Inlet and its lighthouse spread out below. We mixed Polynesian ease with coastal Italian polish and a nod to Jupiter surf culture: natural textures, sculptural light, lounge pockets that drift from afternoon to after dark around one long alfresco...

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Beacon at Love Street, Jupiter, Florida - Restaurant Design by Bigtime Design Studios

Beacon

Beacon sits on the water in Jupiter's Inlet Village, and the room is built around the cooking: a U-shaped open exhibition kitchen and chef's counter in the middle of the dining room, with a culinary station worked into the bar. The design cues came from the Mediterranean, the roots are...

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Lucky Shuck at Love Street, Jupiter, Florida - Restaurant Design by Bigtime Design Studios

Lucky Shuck

Joe Namath's Lucky Shuck stands on the Jupiter Inlet, and we designed it the way the inlet feels: well-worn and brand new at the same time. It's a classic oyster bar and tap house with soaring volume and 10-inch garage doors wrapping the room, so inside and outside stop arguing...

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Pani Aventura Restaurant designed by Bigtime Design Studios

Pani

The space is demure. The interior is anything but. Pani is the first US outpost of a beloved South American brand, co-designed with Eliana "Pani" Trotta, and the room runs on a Willy Wonka logic: traditional and modern styles colliding until the cakes and pastries look like they came to...

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