As our firm continues to grow its practice, including the launch of a new studio called SB Outside that focuses on alternative, sustainability-driven hospitality units, we return to Calistoga Ranch as a seminal project, for despite being destroyed in the Glass Fire of 2020, it encompasses an early iteration of a “light-on-land” ethos.

As the leading authority on hotel investment for the Caribbean, the conference provided incredible insight into the region’s hospitality industry. Lucas Cadavid, Country Director, SB Architects, shares his top five takeways.

SB Architects Forecasts Trends Set to Shape the Future of Architecture

As designers, we are tasked with creating spaces that have an emotional impact on the user through materiality and the built environment, but also through the guest’s first impression and journey. When designing, we have numerous tools and ‘data points’ to draw from; intuition, history, culture, and most recently: digital data.