Company Profile
Powered by deep domain knowledge, technology-based design, and remaining true to our cultural legacy to design destinations that lift the spirit.
Overview
Enhancing guest experience & client success.
We hold an unwavering commitment to innovation and excellence, amplifying guest experience & client prosperity. We make it our responsibility to continually expand the art & craft of hospitality design.
Overview
Who we are
Independent to this day, we are a global integrated design firm specializing in Advisory, Master Planning, Architecture, Landscape, and Interior Design.
Our teams are creative, world-traveling professionals designing landmark urban and leisure destinations with eight offices across three continents.
Our Impact
Distinct, timeless & authentic.
Our creative instinct to honor the intrinsic beauty of each destination and to celebrate the relationships forged through every project enable us to create moments of luxury hospitality like no one else.
Our Impact
Our impact
- Enduring Prosperity for Clients – Distinct, timeless, strategically centered, and operationally sound. These qualities have been delivered consistently by WATG since our inception, resulting in destinations that are famous for perpetually high performance.
- Guest Delight & Fulfillment – WATG’s work leaves a lasting, joyful impression on those who encounter our spaces, enriching individual lives and generating positive guest satisfaction for our clients.
- Resilient Local Communities – Authentic to place and empathetic to citizens, our destinations lift communities by bringing prominence to places and cultures and by stimulating economies through tourism and job creation.
- Advancement of Hospitality Design -WATG has historically led design innovation that amplifies guest experience and client prosperity while influencing designers across the globe. We make it our responsibility to continually expand the art and craft of hospitality design.
Sector experience
Spaces & places.
A destination is defined by the local culture, the natural environment, the convergence of individuals, and the spaces that have been created to bring those elements together. When each of these elements is taken into account, we can build a vision that will positively affect the history, culture, and people of the region. With every new project, a new guest experience is conceived to author a unique destination for visitors to discover.
Sector experience
Resilient Design
Vibrant & resilient.
WATG is dedicated to creating sustainable places that consider and respect the environment while providing exceptional hospitality experiences. We approach each project with the utmost respect for the local communities, we look to create destinations that are vibrant and resilient. Developing strategies that will allow a location to grow, expand and evolve in a sustainable manner – environmentally, culturally and economically. We aim to preserve what makes a destination unique and leave behind designs that will improve the way of life.
Bardessono Hotel & Spa
Platinum LEED-NC
Bardessono Hotel & Spa
Platinum LEED-NC
Miraval Life in Balance Spa
Platinum LEED-NC
Miraval Life in Balance Spa
Platinum LEED-NC
Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre
Gold LEED
Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre
Gold LEED
Mont Choisy Smart City
Smart City
Mont Choisy Smart City
Smart City
Sorry, no results found.
Our Clients
We work with clients who value originality, collaboration, and the art of hospitality.
Our experience
Collaborative & prestigious.
Decades of specialized design experience has afforded us the opportunity to collaborate with the most prestigious hospitality brands around the globe.
Award winning
RECENT AWARDS & HONORS:
2023 Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards
The Abu Dhabi Edition
The Venetian Resort, Las Vegas (#2 hotel in the world)
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Europe (#3 train in the world)
The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua Maui (#34 resort in the world)
Hospitality Design Magazine 2023 Best Suites
Belmond Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
The International Hotel & Property Awards 2023
Hotel Design – Asia Pacific Category
Yanbai Villa, China
Ahead Awards EMEA 2023
The Chedi Katara – Guestrooms (Shortlisted)
Condé Nast Johansens 2023
Best for Families Crimson Resort and Spa Boracay, Philippines
Condé Nast Traveler Readers Choice Awards 2022
Best Resorts in the World
Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort, Indonesia
Ahead Global 2022
Transport / Winner – Belmond Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
Paris Design Awards 2022
Urban Design – International La Cadiere Lake City, China
Condé Nast Gold List 2021
The Best Hotels in North America & Mexico
Park Hyatt Aviara, California
Travel & Leisure World’s Best Awards 2021
Park Hyatt Aviara, California
Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort
Fairmont, Washington D.C. (interiors)
Grand Hyatt Kauai Spa, Kauai
Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea (renovation)
Prix Versailles 2020
Nobu Hotel Los Cabos, Mexico (winner)
Interior Design Excellence Award (Idea) 2019
Bellagio Shanghai
World Architecture Festival 2019
Nobu Hotel Los Cabos, Mexico (shortlisted)
OUR SERVICES
Thinkers, Dreamers, Imaginers & Artists.
We deliver dynamic designs and brilliant solutions for world-class clients.
Advisory – Enlightened by Strategy
Unique to our space, our research-led Advisory team provides informed insights for business direction and guest experience, forming the foundation for design and economic success.
Master Planning – Making Ideas Possible
Considering the physical character of the site and its potential for positive transformation in the context of market expectations, the result is a plan that minimizes risk and optimizes long-term financial success while creating a beautiful place. We provide visioning and concept development, competitive positioning and feasibility, land use and planning – all thoughtfully orchestrated with human experience at the core.
Architecture – Articulating a Vision
Above all else, it’s our clients’ vision that inspires our designs. Informed by our rich history in hospitality and deep understanding of the needs of developers, operators, and guests, we design all project types with purpose. From dazzling entertainment destinations to intimate boutique hotels, and dynamic urban developments to luxury resorts, we tell the unique stories of our clients and their communities through experiences that create lasting value.
Landscape Architecture – Energizing the Spaces in Between
Transforming landscapes into imaginative, recuperative and sensory spaces designed to captivate clients, their customers, and good for communities and our planet.
Wimberly Interiors – Creating Aspirational Human Experiences
Wimberly Interiors is a boundless interior design firm that has broken down barriers in geography and creativity with a global network of talent and a vast understanding of cultural nuances.
Our expertise
Hospitality is at the heart of our work, and we apply its core tenets to diverse markets.
Hospitality
WATG’s approach goes beyond aesthetics; it tells a story, creating immersive environments that resonate emotionally with guests. The collaborative process, cultural sensitivity, and dedication to enhancing the overall guest experience exemplify WATG’s commitment to transforming spaces into timeless tales of luxury and hospitality.
Residential
We always focus on the client’s vision and project objectives. Our team of hospitality and residential experts provide informed insights for both business success and residents’ experience.
Entertainment and Gaming
We have legacy gaming projects across the globe. Over time, we honed our skills to design curated experiences, and our dedicated teams apply commercial savvy to deliver time sensitive solutions to our clients as their trusted advisors throughout the design process.
Refurbishment and Renovation
With a focus on innovative design, sustainability, and preserving the heritage of each project, we deliver tailored solutions that breathe new life into buildings. Whether it’s a historic landmark or a contemporary building, we redefine spaces to meet the evolving needs of clients and communities.
Urban and Mixed-Use
Our designs meet today’s needs and anticipate the future, ensuring lasting relevance and resilience. Whether it is entirely new or a renovation of an existing building, we focus on the end user and their experience of the space. Applying our design technologies, we seek to optimise and craft holistic environments even in the most challenging and constrained sites to create an urban oasis.
DIGITAL PRACTICE
WATG stands at the forefront of technology within the architecture, design, and hospitality realm.
The harmony between advanced technology tools and skillful designers create an optimized, exploratory, innovative and wholesome design cycle. Through our Digital Practice, WATG seek to enhance design and enable a visual understanding beyond what was previously possible.
DX in our DNA
WATG’s DX (Digital Transformation) is an ongoing process calibrated to indsutry trends and technological disruption. We empower our design leaders and design teams with more efficient, automated, and digitzed workflows. This allows our design solutions to be delivered with an agile sensibility.
Digital + Data + AI/ML + Innovation
WATG’s Digital Practice constantly seeks to gain efficiencies that differentiate us from our competitors. Our current technology strategy is powered to embrace and pioneer new digital and data futures where we can access and analyze our data to improve all aspects of design, production and delivery for our clients. Ultimately, our technology systems, applications, and integrations drive our firm to provide our clients, our guests, and our planet with even better design solutions and experiences.
BIM Excellence
One primary area of expertise within WATG lies in leveraging BIM’s power to streamline design, enhance collaboration, and ensure precision throughout the architectural process. With a trailblazing approach, we harness BIM’s capabilities to conceptualize, visualize, and execute projects with unparalleled efficiency.
Our commitment to staying at the forefront of BIM innovation empowers us to deliver projects that embody accuracy, sustainability, and visionary design. At WATG, BIM isn’t just a tool—it’s a cornerstone of our commitment to continual evolution of our architectural and design practice. Our innovations with BIM technologies allow us to consistently deliver exceptional results for our clients
Our Projects
Grounded in rigorous strategy and incomparable domain expertise, we create iconic, exhilarating, culturally significant destinations.
- Europe
Mitsis Grand Hotel Rhodes
- China
Hyatt Regency Huangshan Hengjiangwan
- China
Hyatt Regency Huangshan Hengjiangwan
- North America
Tempo by Hilton, Nashville
- North America
Tempo by Hilton, Nashville
- North America
Hard Rock Ottawa Hotel & Casino
- North America
Hard Rock Ottawa Hotel & Casino
- Asia Pacific
Hilton Okinawa Miyako Island Resort
- Asia Pacific