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EDITORIAL

RESILIENT DESIGN
STORMS ONTO
CENTER STAGE
TALK ABOUT TIMING: Alex Wilson

formally launched the Resilient
Design Institute (RDI) last July. Three
months later, Superstorm Sandy
ravaged the New York area.
“I had been focusing increasing
attention on resilient design since
Hurricane Katrina, when I got
involved with efforts to make the
reconstruction there more sustainable,” says Wilson, who is founder
of BuildingGreen Inc., executive editor
of Environmental Building News and
president of the RDI. “But Sandy
certainly helped to focus a lot more
attention on resilience-related issues.”
As defined by the institute,
resilient design “is the intentional
creation of buildings, landscapes,
communities and regions capable
of bouncing back after disturbances
or interruptions” caused by global
warming. Those climate-related
upheavals include more intense
storms, greater precipitation, coastal
and valley flooding, longer and more
severe droughts in some areas, wildfires, melting permafrost, warmer
temperatures and power outages.
What do such events portend for
the designers of hospitality spaces?
We put that groundbreaking question to a quintet of sustainable design
experts—Gettys’ Dan Welborn; John
Portman & Associates’ Ellis Katz and
Pierluca Maffey; and HOK’s Randa
Tukan and Thomas Knittel—and I

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Executive Editor
Mary Scoviak
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think you’ll find their answers (see
page 44) illuminating, inspirational
and intriguing. For example, while the
story offers up lessons to be learned
from recent projects in such hothouse climes as Doha and Hyderabad,
it also includes one involving a hotel
in suburban Chicago.
Beyond tackling the big-picture
topic of resilient design, this “Sustainable & Sensational” issue provides
some design drill-down into two
forward-thinking green projects: the
Innhouse hotel in southern China,
with its innovative “street-to-suite”
layout (page 28); and the new NYLO
South Dallas Hotel (page 34), a highly
imaginative adaptive-reuse project
that involved converting a former
coffin factory into a luxury destination. There’s also a lively Q+A
with Stonehill & Taylor’s sustainable design advocate, Michael Suomi
(page 38).
Taken in their totality, these
articles are designed to serve as a
roadmap for you in creating the
earth-friendly hospitality venues
of today—and tomorrow.

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