Company Profile

ArquitectonicaINTERIORS is an interior design firm focused on designing a custom environment unique to each project or individual. The firm explores the challenges of contemporary built and un-built environments to develop design solutions capable of addressing a bold and modern aesthetic.
For over 37 years of Arquitectonicas architectural practice, Arquitectonica INTERIORS has designed the interior spaces of many of the firms buildings including office and corporate headquarters, hotels and resorts, restaurants and bars, retail/entertainment centers, multi-family residential buildings, public buildings, and private custom homes. Our firm is staffed with experience professionals with various degrees of design backgrounds that bring forth unique and creative solutions to each project. Our team has worked on and completed numerous designs for a variety of interiors spaces. ArquitectonicaINTERIORS design philosophy is based on the principal of designing a unique interiors experience that reflects a thought process primarily based on the fundamental aspects of each space. We value the combination of attributes that make one place distinct from another and strive to maintain the natural and cultural environments in order to create a unique identity for each project.

Laurinda Spear, FAIA, RLA, ASLA, LEED AP Principal

Laurinda Spear is a founding principal of Arquitectonica. She studied fine arts at Brown University, received her Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University and later a Master of Landscape Architecture from Florida International University. She has taught at Harvard and the University of Miami. Laurinda designed many of the firms signature projects, and her designs have won over a hundred design awards. She was also instrumental in the expansion of Arquitectonica into design fields beyond architecture and planning. She first established the interior design practice, ArquitectonicaINTERIORS, which earned the firm its place in the Interior Design Hall of Fame. Laurinda is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and a LEED Accredited Professional. She is the recipient of the AIA Silver Medal and the Rome Prize in Architecture. Laurinda is active in community affairs and sits on the Board of Architecture and Arts at Florida International University, as well as the board of the National Tropical Botanical Garden.

Alison Spear, AIA, IIDA, LEED AP Director

Alison Spear holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University. She is a licensed architect in the states of New York, New Jersey, Florida and Connecticut and is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), LEED AP, the National Council of Registration Boards (NCARB), International Interior Design Association (IIDA), and The New York Architectural League. Alison and her sister, Laurinda Spear, have worked together in the past and are combining their unique experiences and talents to design new innovative projects for ArquitectonicaINTERIORS.

Contact
2900 Oak Avenue Miami, Florida 33133 T 305.372.1812 F 305.372.1175 info@arquitectonicainteriors.com arquitectonicainteriors.com

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Cyberport

The design concept for this long narrow string of interconnected buildings is based on the

Technology Campus

The Dragon

famous for zigzagging and weaving back and forth in street parades.

HONG KONG

AWARDS + ACHIEVEMENTS

AIA Miami, Award of Excellence in Architecture AIA Florida, Award for Excellence in Architecture Miami + Beach Bienal, Gold Award Intelligent Community Forum, Intelligent Building of the Year Society of American Registered Architects, Design Award of Excellence

an information infrastructure development

intended to attract IT companies and professionals to Hong Kong

Offices are equipped with the latest facilities including multi-media labs, production studies, an I.T. court and gallery, exhibition spaces, tele-conferencing suites, presentation theaters, a business center, spa, fitness areas, educational and entertainment facilities.

Digital Media Cyberlibrary

This access to state-of-the-art facilities makes Cyberport a particularly attractive destination for I.T. companies. Facilities include a multimedia lab, projection studios, an I.T. court and gallery, exhibition space, teleconferencing suites, presentation theatres, and a business centre. Mixed in with these shared facilities are lounges, cafes and common areas where workers can relax, eat and socialize with one another.

Cyberport

HONG KONG

Revel
Hotel + Casino

Visitors rise to the casino floor and hotel lobby within a dramatic elliptical atrium. Escalators crisscross like bridges adding to the drama. Once in the casino floor one rediscovers the expansive views of the ocean. Restaurants and bars share those views.

ATLANTIC CITY

A creative take on retail in a series of galleries. We cooperated in the design and collection of shopping spaces called

The Row

AWARDS + ACHIEVEMENTS
SARA - Bronze Award for Design New Jersey Concrete, Grand Award G2E Casino Design Awards - 2012
- Best Overall Construction Project for a Casino or Casino Resort over $250 Million - Best Architectural Design over $250 Million for a Casino or Casino Resort - Best Overall Interior Design for a Casino or Casino Resort - Best Landscape Design for a Casino or Casino Resort

A collection of retail rooms runs parallel to the casino. Each room offers a unique lounge experience that is surrounded shops. These series of spaces link the waterfront with the show theatre. They also greet the guests that arrive from the garage.

Taikoo Hui

GUANGZHOU

The arcade contains a series of

Oval Voids
allowing escalator circulation, visual connectivity and natural light to penetrate all levels.

Taikoo Hui consists of five principal components that include a retail center, two office towers, a 5-star Mandarin hotel, and the cultural center. This cultural center houses a library and public art spaces. The principal components are connected by an open air landscaped public plaza.

Festival Walk
Festival Walk Mall has 7 levels of shopping and includes an 11-screen multiplex cinema, food courts and an Olympic-sized skating rink. The retail center is directly connected to Hong Kongs Mass Transit Railway (MTR) and Kowloon Canton Railway (KCR) stations at Kowloon Tong.

HONG KONG

Golden Moon
Hotel + Casino

MISSISSIPPI

The design concept revolved around the architecture. A classic flowing structure that starts lower at one end, winds around the casino area and gradually grows taller peaking with a brightly lit moon that sits 310 feet above ground.

The program for the Casino includes a new 80,000 SF first-class gaming casino and a 572-room hotel building with corresponding access roadways, administrative areas, parking and infrastructure; as well as complimentary uses and amenities such as retail, restaurants, lounges, meeting rooms, fitness center and health spa, beauty salon and barber shop and pool areas.

The Moon as a Beacon

The design was meant to define the landscape and be seen from miles away.

The center of the oval-shaped casino floor is a feature lounge with a center bar and ice sculpture. Champions, a sports lounge and grille, is located just off the gaming floor. A 100-seat show bar, visible to the entire gaming floor, hosts live music and entertainment.

AWARDS + ACHIEVEMENTS
AIA Florida - Award for Excellence, Built Category Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
- Paul Waterbury Award of Excellence, Facade/Show Illumination

The Westin
at Times Square

The theme for the hotel interior is inspired by the exterior,

a beam of light
that rises up through the hotels seven-story interior atrium.

NEW YORK

a large-scale abstract design which appears to be a multi-dimensional

Gigantic

Colors and shapes from the exterior were translated to a smaller scale and reintroduced on the interior in public spaces and guest rooms.

SLS South Beach

Hotel + Spa Addition

MIAMI BEACH

Updating the Historic 1939 Ritz Plaza

Arquitectonica led the effort to update the historic 1939 Ritz Plaza hotel, reinventing its image for the SLS brand with the addition of ten luxury bungalows suites, cabanas, the Hyde Beach Club and pool deck, and two restaurants.

The Arquitectonica-designed Hyde Beach addition features indoor/outdoor lounge amenities emptying onto the sand steps from the Atlantic Ocean, modeled after the best beachside destinations of the Mediterranean Riviera.

Marquis
Casa Moderna Hotel + Spa

The hotel features a restaurant, spa and fitness center, meeting spaces and a 12th floor sky pool deck. Marquis is a seamless combination of Arquitectonicas signature tropical modernism, bold design and elegant architecture.

MIAMI

The hotel reception area welcomes the use of

including textured wood and stone.

Warm+Natural Materials

We customized many finished inside the reception and hotel lobby such as wallcoverings, rugs, bedding. Lighting is also integrated within the architecture of the space inside lower ceilings and recessed lighting.

Infinity

SAN FRANCISCO

Its about the boundary of

Inside + Outside Disappearing

Infinity has central courtyard that is the focus of the community with an indoor lap pool, spa and fitness center, party room, conference area and childrens play area. There are even shops and restaurants facing the street.

The Slade

WEST PALM BEACH

The interiors are inspired by the buildings

Parapet Walls
The Slades amenities contain two pool decks, a meditation lawn, as well as a fitness center with spa treatment rooms, and a party room.

The Standard
Lido Spa Miami Beach

MIAMI BEACH

The Longemont Hotel

This 53-story office and 5-star hotel tower is located in the Changning District on a prominent site at one of Shanghais most famous elevated highways, Yanan Road. The tower accommodates separate lobbies for hotel and office, as well as restaurants, ballroom and multifunction areas.

The dynamic spaces for the hotels dining, fitness and spa facilities are vivid with uninterrupted views of Shanghais skyline.

SHANGHAI

Trinity Place
The lobby of a massive residential development consisting of 1,900 units in six towers on an entire city block located at the intersection of Market Street and Eighth Avenue.

SAN FRANCISCO

Blue

MIAMI

A 36-story condominium with 358 units, this cutting-edge residential tower presents a first impression for guests and visitors as they are introduced to a developing linear waterwall which sets the tone for this curvilinear lobby space.

SMDCAC
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center
The South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center is a performing arts center that houses a 966-seat theater on three levels, an orchestra pit, stage area with fly loft space, dressing rooms, administrative offices and a rehearsal room.

Visitors are greeted by a 70-foot (22-meter) high lobby space integrating a dramatic lighting scheme from artist Robert Chambers.

MIAMI

AWARDS + ACHIEVEMENTS
Society of American Registered Architects
We wanted the building to reflect

The Spirit of Movement

IIDA South Florida Chapter

Best Cultural Venue 2011

Silver Award for Design

Miami New Times - Best of Miami Awards,

Best Institutional/Governmental Project of 2013

moving the patron through a visual as well as physical experience, making the patron a performer. - Laurinda Spear

The Bronx Museum of the Arts

NEW YORK

dramatizes the vertical dimension of the modest structure, turning it into an unexpectedly monumental surface.

Curtain-Like Geometry

This project marked the beginning of an ambitious plan to expand and eventually replace the existing Bronx Art Museum. Designed by Arquitectonica, the 16,700 square foot Bronx Museum of the Arts would provide a strong civic presence while being inviting to potential visitors.

Wilkie D. Ferguson

United States Courthouse

MIAMI

A state-of-the-art, safe, efficient and cost-effective building that reflects the dignity of the judicial process, while providing stringent security and meeting the requirements of the US Courts Design Guidelines, the needs of the GSA, the judges and the citizens of Miami.

The courtrooms are finished in a combination of wood veneer paneling, acoustical fabric wrapped panels and custom design glass in the walls. The ceiling is painted drywall in a custom designed origami shape. All millwork for the courtrooms, including the judges bench, clerks bench, jury box, witness stand, and gate are veneers of three different species of wood. Wood pew seating matches the walnut millwork.

Truth + Justice

are defined by a singular pierced, transparent glass volume composed with a pair of towers which represent the two opposing sides of an argument

Banque de Luxembourg
Arquitectonica designed the corporate headquarters of Banque de Luxembourg, situated at the focal point of the financial district among 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century buildings. The building has eight levels below grade, six levels above grade and contains an auditorium, trading rooms, a vault, a computer center, meeting rooms/classrooms and dining areas.

LUXEMBOURG

Banco de Credito
The interior, which has an open plan, provides orientation points: cylindrical elevator lobbies and distinctively shaped walls focused on the courtyard. They include the cafeteria, 350seat auditorium, banking floor and file storage facilities. Roof areas are used for staff fitness activities such as running track and lap pool, and are linked to the fitness center below.

LIMA

The carpets, paneling, and much of the office furniture (including desks and credenzas) were built by local craftsman and a color scheme derived from

Traditional Inca

The Banco de Credito Headquarters serves as both the headquarters and operations center for the largest bank in Peru. The building contains five levels and is located where the city meets the foothills of the Andes. It was conceived as a monumental version of the traditional Spanish courtyard building. The square building surrounds and frames dramatic stone formations and Inca ruins.

Exaltis

The lobby stretches the entire length of the building. A monumental wall, two curved surfaces of

Frosted + Black Granite

meet at a midpoint.

PARIS

Illuminated Arches

in the lobby and related spaces are an expressionist synthesis of the forces that multiply like a wild expressionist scribble on a sketchpad.

Exaltis is a 15-story office building that completes the axis of the Avenue Gambetta in the La Defense District in Paris.

Jackson Convention Center

JACKSON

As glass folds, it creates a sort of prismatic appearance in the faade as it reflects in different directions.

Folding Crystalline Forms

We put wood along the pre-function walls to emit

Warmth From th Inside

The Jackson Convention Complex was designed to stimulate revitalization for the downtown business district. Currently featuring meeting spaces, an exhibit hall, ballroom, concourse, and pre-function areas.

Auditorium de Dijon

DIJON

The Dijon Performing Arts Center is a state of-the-art 1640-seat symphony hall and opera house. The facility bridges over the boulevard, acting as a gateway from the modern city to the historic district.

American Airlines Arena

The American Airlines Arena is a 19,600-seat multipurpose arena used for sporting events, ice shows, and concerts. The complex, home to the 3 time NBA Champions Miami Heat, houses several restaurants and an underground parking garage.

MIAMI

Using the teams colors of yellow, orange, and red, the seats were designed in a

Wavy Heat Pattern

AWARDS + ACHIEVEMENTS

AIA Miami - Award of Excellence for Design, Unbuilt Category AIA Florida - Award for Excellence in Architecture, Unbuilt Category AIA Florida - Award for Excellence in Architecture, Built Category Association of Builders & Contractors - Award for Excellence Metal Construction Association (MCA) - Award for Excellence

Philips Arena

Philips Arena is a 20,000-seat multipurpose facility for basketball, hockey, concerts and other uses. The arena is the home of the NBA Atlanta Hawks and the NHL Atlanta Thrashers. An extraordinarily intimate arena designed to be instantly identifiable as Atlantas Arena. We produced a facility that fits flawlessly into the citys urban fabric.

ATLANTA

A unique feature of Arquitectonicas design for the arena is its integration into the neighboring CNN Center and the surrounding urban Atlanta fabric. The facility also contains HawkWalk, a retail, entertainment and restaurant corridor a basketball practice court, and locker rooms.

A Quadrant of Suites
This design aspect allows the majority of the seats to be located in the lowest seating level, and pushes the upper seating levels six rows closer and lower to the action than any other arena. A variable-rise seating system in the end zones raises and retracts to provide unprecedented views for both basketball and hockey.

on one side of the court

Headquarters
Located in the heart of Coconut Grove, Florida, the contemporary design of this two-story office building creates a look comprised of exposed masonry and concrete. The structure is blanketed by large, warehouse style operable windows and views to an interior courtyard.

Arquitectonica

MIAMI

The conference room spaces have enriched Honduran mahogany walls juxtaposed with polished concrete floors and exposed spiral duct work.

The Central Courtyard

An entry way to the office and courtyard uses varying geometries of brick patterns to accentuate the coloration in the rustic-toned window frames.

Sarasota Herald Tribune

SNN Channel 6 Television Studio

The New York Times Company commissioned Arquitectonica to design the editorial offices of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and the broadcast studios for SNNs Channel 6 Television. This building capitalizes on the natural environment with big overhangs and louvers to create shade on the facades while allowing natural light to penetrate the interior spaces.

SARASOTA

The employee cafeteria, situated on the top level along the street, adjoins a covered terrace above the entrance lobby allowing outdoor dining. The terrace also provides a dramatic space for staging community events for which the paper is also known.

Related Group
Offices at One Miami

Office Space + Art Gallery

A four story corporate office designed to double as an art gallery for rotating displays of the companys paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper.

MIAMI

A large custom table dominates the board room while an angular coved ceiling, lit by indirect color-corrected fluorescents, adds a dimension as does the multi-dimensional feature wall equipped for video presentations.

Architectural elements in the reception area are designed to stand out like the art in the offices above. Luxurious materials like Calacatta gold marble and Majorca limestone and custom wood finishes add gloss and sophistication.

Terranova
Headquarters

MIAMI BEACH

A Dividing Wave

Defines the floorplan for conference spaces, reception areas and office units.

The interiors for this corporate headquarters are comprised of seven conference rooms, a fitness center and a lunch room. The open-plan working environment with irregular curving walls and vibrant colors designed to attract young new talent and provide a motivational atmosphere.

Savannah College of Art

ATLANTA

Arquitectonica worked with iXL Enterprises creating distinctive office interiors that represent the creative spirit of digital age. The first phase includes the design of an adaptive reuse office space in an existing building which now serves as the home of the Savannah College of Art & Designs (SCAD) Atlanta campus.

Reuse Repurpose Recycle

SCAD embraced the innovative headquarters, easily adapting it to classrooms and large public spaces for their design-aware students. SCAD Sphere, a multimedia theater attraction, as well as ample classroom and exhibition space, and well-equipped computer labs create a dynamic learning environment.

CTEA

High School for Construction Trades, Engineering + Architecture

NEW YORK

The High School for Construction Trades, Engineering & Architecture in Queens, New York is a specialty high school housing classrooms, laboratories, a library, fully functioning 300-seat theater, and a doubleheight lobby connected to a presentation hall.

Programming With Materials

The interior expressed specialized spaces in different materials - the auditorium in precast concrete panels, the cafeteria and art room in corrugated metal, the gym in glass block, the library in colored porcelain panels, and the classrooms in bright red brick.

Axis

A 718-unit development featuring two high-rise residential 38-story tower includes ground level retail space, 8 levels of parking, 1 level of amenities featuring a swimming pool, bar and 28 floors containing 359 residential units.

MIAMI

A Pure Prism
The minimalist design stands out in its simplicity and sculptural quality

330 East th 57 Street

Located on Sutton Place, this residential building contains 14 full floor condominiums. Every 1,891 SF home includes a master suite, two guest bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, and oversized living and dining areas.

NEW YORK

 The building contains three bedroom residences that offer a combination of natural light and airy spaciousness.

Comfortable + Entertaining

Residence
at Biscayne Bay

MIAMI

Residence
at Coconut Grove

MIAMI

Obercreek
Residence

A farmland estate in Dutchess County, New York, this residence blends Federal, Italianate and colonial revival elements.

NEW YORK

Classic + Modern

This residence marries classic grace with modern flair.

Holly Hunt Showroom

MIAMI

Hochberg + Healey

MIAMI BEACH

Jabban Residence

LONG ISLAND

Lindemann Residence

MIAMI BEACH

Palumbo Residence
at the Ritz-Carlton

NEW YORK