Who We Are
The preeminent leader in integrated luxury hospitality design. Grounded in rigorous strategy and incomparable domain expertise, we create iconic, exhilarating, culturally-significant destinations.
Pushing the boundaries of possibility while delivering enduring client success across the globe.
OUR CLIENTS
We work with clients who value originality, collaboration, and the art of hospitality. They share our belief that modern luxury is experiential and authentic and that the foundation of long-term success is built with considered vision, innovative yet timeless design, and an unrelenting respect for local cultures and their natural environments.
Prestigious, groundbreaking, and highly successful, our work has positioned us as the global leaders in integrated luxury hospitality design.
Key characteristics to help us clearly express how we practice our craft.
Exclusively Hospitality
We practice the art of hospitality design in every facet of our work. While our expertise spans several markets, we always adhere to hospitality’s core tenets- welcoming, warm, memorable, and restorative.
Authentic to Culture & Place
Our designs are invariably and authentically inspired by the destination’s people, history, and environment. We immerse ourselves in culture and create connections that expose, celebrate, and lift places and customs.
Redefined Luxury
Modern luxury is compelling, meaningful, and personal. Our work fullfils this by connecting people with exclusive, indulgent experiences that awaken the imagination and invite the feeling of adventure.
Cohesive & Holistic
Guided by sophisticated and ambitious strategic vision, we orchestrate connections of interior and exterior spaves across all design disciplines, working as one to blur lines into a single harmonious domain.
Signature
Each of our destinations is one-of-a-kind – differentiating, defining, and completely ownable. We plan and design as a direct response to client, culture, place, and project objectives.
Elevated with Technology
We inform and advance our work with advanced technologies, like computational design tools and workflows, parametric design, immersive realities, AI, analysis and visualization, and other data-informed processes.
Planetarily Responsible
Our work can have immense influence on the environment, so we dutifully develop sustainable solutions, integrate them into our design process, and always stay sensitive to the site and its connections to the truth.
Innovative
Our deep domain expertise frees us to redefine possibilities and set new design standards, creating unexpected designs that make our clients’ destinations unique and memorable.
Enlightened by Strategy
Unique to our space, our research-led advisory and analysis provides informed insights for business direction and guest experience, forming the foundation for design and economic success.
Timeless
Clients who value investment and longevity know that authentic luxury is not trendy – and while we push boundaries, our work is designed to be compelling both today and tomorrow.
Inspiring & Exhilarating
We design curated experiences that lift the spirit and touch the senses – via experiential storytelling, the feelings of spaced and wonder, and the creation of captivating, magical moments.
Our creative instinct to honor the inherent beauty in each destination and to celebrate the relationships that are made through every project are what enable us to create moments of luxury hospitality like no one else.
We communicate our most influential areas of impact through these points.
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.
Resilient Local Communities
Authentic to place and empathetic to citizens, our destinations lift communities by bringing prominence to place and cultures and by stimulating economies through tourism and job creation.
Guest Delight & Fulfillment
At our best, 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.
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.