Recent Articles
Lori McGilberry Joins LEO A DALY
Lori McGilberry, CHID, EDAC, NCIDQ, RID, joins LEO A DALY to lead and help deliver future-flexible environments that inspire wellness, health and hospitality throughout the dynamic delivery of care.
AIA Florida Honors 360 Rosemary with Statewide Award
360 Rosemary, a 20-story mixed-use project in West Palm Beach, has earned the prestigious Merit Award of Excellence for New Work from AIA Florida. Designed by LEO A DALY and Elkus Manfredi Architects, this LEED Gold-certified tower features stunning office spaces, retail areas, and urban community spaces, contributing to revitalizing the downtown area.
LEO A DALY Expertise Featured in July’s American School and University
The July issue of American Schools and Universities features an article from LEO A DALY’s Irena Savakova and Anya Grant, sharing the design successes for the University of Maryland’s Thurgood Marshall Hall.
LEO A DALY-Designed Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health Building Wins AIA Minneapolis Merit Award
The Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health Building, designed by LEO A DALY, has been honored with an AIA Minneapolis Merit Award.
20 Mass Earns Rethinking the Future Award, an International Honor
An international jury has honored the LEO A DALY-designed 20 Mass project with a Rethinking the Future Award, which recognizes excellence in global architecture.
NEWH features “bright and breezy” Diplomat Beach Resort
Director of Hospitality Interiors Kathy Chavez spoke to the magazine about LEO A DALY’s transformative redesign
The iconic Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida, has been totally transformed. LEO A DALY’s hotel lobby design brings in ocean breezes, connecting the monumental space to the true star of the show: the beach. The latest issue of NEWH magazine tells the story of the hospitality transformation.
Excerpted from the article:
When the team at LEO A DALY first walked into the three-story lobby of Hollywood, Florida’s storied Diplomat Beach Resort (now part of Hilton’s Curio Collection) they found a long fountain bookended by black granite sculptures and “palm trees lined up like soldiers in a row,” says Kathy Chavez, director of hospitality interiors. Job number one, then, was removing any traces of 1980s mall décor to create a destination resort that brought the beach back into focus.
After the dated clutter was gone, designers inserted a two-sided bar with folding glass walls that allow the “sounds, smells and ocean breezes to flow through the lobby,” senior interior designer Lara Rimes says. The addition of custom furniture with weathered wood finishes, recessed sandpits, and a handful of those palm trees (cut to different heights and spaced more organically) contribute a beach vibe.