W Hotel, San Francisco, California

The award-winning, structurally innovative W Hotel, located adjacent to SF/MoMA in San Francisco’s arts and convention district, maximizes the potential of a compact urban redevelopment site. Public spaces include an open cafe, a 125-seat restaurant, a mezzanine lounge overlooking Yerba Buena Gardens, and a fitness center with glass-covered swimming pool. 10,000 square feet of meeting space, including a ballroom, boardrooms, and flexible meeting rooms, surrounds a triple-height entry lobby, which captures the scale of the city while providing intimate spaces for conversation. This sense of intimacy, shaped by a subtle play of darkness and light, carries throughout the hotel, organized in intimate clusters of sixteen rooms per floor.