The most resonant piece of May coverage came from one of the UK’s most widely read national newspapers. WATG London was named on The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2026 list, marking the second consecutive year the firm has received this recognition.

The award, drawn entirely from direct employee feedback rather than editorial nomination, assesses organizations across six dimensions of workplace experience: reward and recognition, instilling pride, information sharing, empowerment, wellbeing, and job satisfaction. Being named for the second year running reflects the culture WATG has built and its consistency in maintaining it.

The afterglow of the Four Seasons Hotel Cartagena opening in early April continued to generate press attention into May, with TravelWires  publishing a full hotel feature. The piece offered a comprehensive account of the property and named WATG and Wimberly Interiors among the roster of design contributors who brought the multi-year colonial restoration to life.

The coverage acknowledged the collaborative nature of the project and reinforced the significance of WATG and Wimberly Interiors’ contribution to the design of a property that has rapidly been establishing itself as one of Latin America’s most important luxury openings of the year.

From the official press release, Four Seasons announced that its new Mykonos hotel was accepting reservations ahead of its summer 2026 opening, generating a wave of international coverage.

Wimberly Interiors was named as the designer of the property’s seven-room spa, a comprehensive wellness facility featuring treatment rooms including a couples’ suite and an outdoor spa pavilion, a terrace juice bar, sauna and steam facilities, and an adjoining fitness studio and yoga pavilion. The resort marks Four Seasons’ second Greek property, and positions Wimberly Interiors at the forefront of the brand’s continued expansion in Europe.

The press release was redistributed across the global travel press, with Wimberly Interiors named by Yahoo News Singapore, The Traveler, and Breaking Travel News.

The renovation of Lagen Island Resort, El Nido continued to attract strong editorial interest across three publications in May, each approaching the story through the lens of conservation and cultural acknowledgement.

Hotel Designs dedicated a full feature to the project, placing WATG and Wimberly Interiors’ work at the center of the story, crediting the firm’s full suite of involved service lines: advisory, architecture, and interior design. The piece described how the integrated design team embraced their role as “guardians of Lagen Island” — prioritizing structural conservation, innovative material reuse, and a regionally-specific design language rooted in the ancient traditions of Palawan’s tribal communities.

Manila Bulletin, one of the Philippines’ most established national newspapers, published a property feature exploring the renewed resort from the perspective of the local market. The piece framed the renovation as a significant moment for Filipino eco-luxury tourism, crediting WATG’s architectural vision and Wimberly Interiors’ design for drawing on ancient indigenous Filipino culture to deliver a preservation-first approach worthy of one of the world’s most extraordinary island settings.

Luxatic also reported on the renovation to a broader luxury lifestyle audience, crediting WATG and Wimberly Interiors’ role in leading the project.

Two pieces in May gave sustained editorial attention to Wimberly Interiors’ role in the 2021 landmark restoration of Hotel del Coronado.

Premier Construction News published an in-depth feature charting the full scope of the multi-phase renovation, which Wimberly Interiors led in partnership with WATG’s California studio as Architect of Record. Liana Hawes Young, Creative Director at Wimberly Interiors New York, was quoted at length on the complexity and emotional weight of the project speaking to the challenge of honoring both the architectural legacy and the deep community connection that guests and locals have to the property.

Hospitality Design published its Day Two recap of HD Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, in which Liana Hawes Young featured on a panel exploring the role of historic context in contemporary renovation design. Speaking to an audience of industry professionals, she described the project’s balancing act between operational requirements, design intent, preservation obligations, and the memories of a community of returning guests.

It is also worth noting that earlier in the expo week, Erin Nichols Walker, Creative Director and Associate Principal at Wimberly Interiors, spoke as a panelist on the subject of designing wellness journeys in hospitality, further reflecting the studio’s presence as a voice of industry leadership at the conference.

Urbanize Chicago, PR Newswire and PlayUSA  all covered the topping-off ceremony for Bally’s Chicago, a landmark construction milestone for the $1.7 billion permanent casino development on the Chicago River, on track for a spring 2027 opening. WATG is noted as the interior design lead for the project, in which the ceremony brought WATG’s involvement one of the most high-profile gaming and entertainment projects in North America into the public record for the first time at this stage of construction.

Antarya, the magazine of the Indian Institute of Interior Design, Bangalore, gave a full feature in its latest issue to Raghavendra ‘Shan’ Shanbhag, Singapore Studio Director at WATG, exploring his philosophy on what makes a hospitality destination truly memorable. Shan framed the DNA of great hospitality design around three interlocking principles: responding to the land and its history, honoring the local and cultural context in which a project sits, and ensuring that operational excellence remains firmly embedded within the design narrative.

The feature used three WATG projects to bring this thinking to life, Hann Lux Lifestyle Resort, Dangkou Ancient Town Hotel Wuxi, and Crowne Plaza Sanya, each illustrating a different dimension of Shan’s approach to place-responsive design. In each project, Shan returned to the same conviction: that the best hospitality spaces are those where the building stops feeling like a building, and the location takes over.