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The property has undergone an incredible expansion, adding new high-end hotel, spa, and event amenities to its popular casino to offer guests an even more spectacular and inclusive entertainment experience.Soaring 23-stories above South Bend, the visually stunning, copper-colored glass hotel tower serves as a beacon for the new resort. Reflecting the beauty of its natural surroundings, the dramatically tinted glass tower transforms into an iconic glowing structure as the sun sets, featuring an LED light ribbon spanning the vertical elevation and specialty mullion extensions that highlight each floor of the tower at night. Inside the luxurious Four Winds casino resort expansion is a 317-room hotel tower with 82 high-end suites, the lavish Cedar Spa, the vibrant Ribbon Town Conference and Event Center, and an outdoor rooftop pool deck set on the third floor adjacent to the hotel’s main food and beverage venue, The Edgewater Café.
Photography by Dero Sanford / Think Dero Architectural Photography
Sited at a main entry point into downtown Memphis’ historic entertainment district is the contemporary new Canopy by Hilton lifestyle hotel.The hotel’s materials, proportions and scale are meant to evoke characteristics of the existing network of mid-rise masonry architecture in the downtown area, while its dark charcoal gray palette, angular patterning and unique geometry help distinguish the building from its context. The five-story hotel elevates over a visually open base level accommodating first floor lobby, restaurant, lounge and bar amenities, while achieving maximum configuration of its guestroom floors on upper levels. Glowing light from two central lightwells and curtainwalls flow together to permeate the first level, enhancing the dynamic lobby and indoor/outdoor dining experience and connecting the structure directly to the surrounding bustling pedestrian activity and downtown’s entertainment and cultural experiences.
Photography ThinkDero/ Dero Sanford abd McGinn Photography / Nick McGinn
The Gun Lake Casino Resort expansion elevates the guest experience with a 15-story, 252-room hotel tower and the stunning 32,000 SF, six-story Wawye Oasis—a year-round tropical paradise. The Wawye Oasis features lush landscaping, immersive lighting, and three distinct pools: a VIP Pool, a 21+ adults-only pool, and a Family Pool. Designed to seamlessly integrate with the resort’s existing aesthetic, the expansion also includes a lobby bar, café, full-service spa, and a renovated center bar. By blending luxury, relaxation, and high-energy entertainment, this expansion transforms Gun Lake Casino Resort into a premier Midwest destination.
Not just in the community, but of the community. That is Caption by Hyatt’s design promise; and the first ever Caption by Hyatt branded hotel, built in Memphis, Tennessee, fully delivers on that promise. The upscale, select-service lifestyle brand introduces a dynamic hospitality experience with an unmistakable neighborhood feel. Located at famed Beale Street in downtown Memphis, the Caption by Hyatt Beale Street Memphis blends seamlessly into the vibrant urban environment. Housed in the historic façade of the Wm. C. Ellis & Sons Ironworks and Machine Shop building, the 136-room hotel tower rises above, offering guests endless views of the Memphis skyline and the Mississippi River. Reflective of the brand’s eclectic contemporary-meets-urban industrial aesthetic, the hotel features open light-filled spaces with a strong industrial flare. The property combines a layering of historic structural elements like exposed brick and original wooden and metal beams, vibrant colors, textures, and hand-painted murals that nod to the storied city it calls home.
Photography by Chris Villano Photography and Dero Sanford/Think Dero
The Cascades pool complex emerges as an expansive outdoor retreat for relaxation and entertainment. Spanning over 5 ½ acres, this meticulously designed pool experience encompasses a series of six exquisite pools, varying types of private cabanas, and seven distinct buildings accommodating bars and lounges, food and beverage and guest services, and retail. Every amenity has been thoughtfully positioned to maximize sunlight and water access and lounging, while offering ample shaded space for social interaction.The design of the Cascades pool complex is formed by organic, curvilinear shapes that adjoin to provide intimate lounge and cabana spaces in between. Set within lush landscaping and winding pathways, a multi-level site design creates zones of personalization and exclusivity, whereby the ground level pool experience is maintained for families, and mid-tier and upper tier experiences are reserved for ages 21+ and for VIP guests.
Photography by Dero Sanford / ThinkDero
