MASTER PLANNERS
TOWN CENTRE PLANNERS/ARCHITECTS
The Burns Conolly Group: Architect
Moore Ruble Yudell: Design Architect
The Olin Studio: Landscape Architect
Spillis Candella, DMJM (Now AECOM): Executive Architect
TOWN CENTRE DESIGNERS
The Design Theorem: Wayfinding and Visual Communication
Fluidity Design Consultants: Water Features
L’Observatoire International Lighting Designers and Consultants: Exterior Lighting
RESIDENTIAL PLANNERS/ARCHITECTS
Martinez and Alvarez Architects
MASTER PLANNERS
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
For over 25 years, DPZ has been a major leader in the practice and direction of urban planning, having designed over 300 new and existing communities in the United States and overseas. The firm’s early project of Seaside, Florida, was the first authentic new town to be built successfully in the United States in over fifty years.
Led by its Principals, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who are co-founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), DPZ was recognised by the New York Times as “the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years.” The movement marked a turning point from the segregated planning and architecture of post-war America, instead advocating the universal and time-tested principles of traditional planning and design that created the best-loved and most-enduring places throughout the world.
Duany Plater-Zyberk (DPZ) became involved with Camana Bay in 2008 when they held a design charrette to develop the conceptual town plan laid out by MRY and OLIN. Members of the original design team were invited to attend to continue in the spirit of collaborative design.
TOWN CENTRE PLANNERS/ARCHITECTS
The Burns Conolly Group, Ltd.: Architect
Led by principal Burns Conolly, AIA, Cayman’s first registered architect, the firm has been involved in a number of roles in Camana Bay’s development from the initial Urban Planning, the Town Centre design and the newer bespoke buildings in collaboration with the rest of the design team. The Firm has handled all Governmental Authority approvals for the entire town. The company’s Interior Design Team has completed many of the Town Centre Tenant fit-outs and coordinated their move into Camana Bay based on their deep understanding of the base buildings and utilities.
The firm employs a unique professional team including a number of AIA and RIBA architects who have experience throughout the Caribbean, USA, Bermuda, UK, Africa, Jamaica and Cuba. Specialisng in large scale master-planned projects, Hospitality, Retail and Commercial buildings as well as associated Interior Design, the company has gained unique experience over the years and developed a deep understanding of construction and development throughout the region. Aside from Camana Bay works, other major projects include the renovation of the 300-room Hilton Hotel in Jamaica, the Kirk Harbour Centre, The Blakes Hotel and The Ironshore Shopping Centre in Montego Bay.
Moore Ruble Yudell: Design Architect
Led by Principal Buzz Yudell, Moore Ruble Yudell (MRY) have been Camana Bay’s architects and town planners since 1996. Winners of the American Institute of Architecture’s National Firm Award in 2006, MRY take a collaborative approach to design, with a passion for architecture that grows out of a dialogue with places and people, celebrates human activity and nurtures community.
The firm’s skill in urban and planning, as well as the art and craft of building design, has allowed MRY to work on a broad range of building types, including civic, cultural, institutional and mixed-use. MRY’s humanist approach has led to their involvement with projects at many of America’s top universities, including campus design at Dartmouth College and academic halls at UCLA and Berkeley. Civic and cultural buildings of note include the Santa Monica Public Library and the recently opened US Embassy in Berlin.
www.moorerubleyudell.com
The Olin Studio: Landscape Architect
Olin was the recipient of the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award and is internationally recognised for design excellence in landscape architecture, urban design and planning. Olin’s award-winning projects range in scale from master plans for entire urban districts, to the design of public parks and plazas, to intimate garden spaces and residences.
For over 32 years, Olin has demonstrated a commitment to the urban realm, creating timeless spaces that promote social interaction. The studio’s holistic approach incorporates the intrinsic qualities of each site to form designs that are appropriate and contextual. They recognise their responsibility to incorporate environmental, economic and social sustainability into their designs to ensure longevity and vitality, which speak to the history, ecology and community of the setting.
Olin have been working collaboratively with MRY on the master planning of Camana Bay since 1996 and have also been responsible for the town’s landscaping and green space design. Some of Olin’s best-known projects include Bryant Park and Columbus Circle in New York, the gardens of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Canary Wharf in London.
www.theolinstudio.com
Spillis Candella, DMJM (Now AECOM): Executive Architect
TOWN CENTRE DESIGNERS
The Design Theorem: Wayfinding and Visual Communication
Duvall Design: Solar Shading
Inspired by natural forms, Duvall designs, fabricates and installs uniquely beautiful fabric structures for architectural, retail and exhibit applications. Principal Charles Duvall uses an artist’s vision to create exterior shade environments and interior architectural shapes and forms that are light in weight, high in value and environmentally friendly, using innovative materials to provide rich effects of light and texture.
The awnings and solar shading devices that have been custom-designed by Duvall for Camana Bay not only provide shade but are also pieces of art in their own right. Duvall has worked on projects at the African American Museum in Baltimore, AOL headquarters in New York and the Auburn Festival Plaza in Maine among others.
Fluidity Design Consultants: Water Features
Fluidity explores art, soul, beauty and humanity through water design. Each water feature and fountain is conceived and developed for maximum experiential and aesthetic value. Principal Jim Garland and his talented team of designers are motivated by evolutionary creativity, significance in water expression, architectural and urban thought, ecological balance, engineering lucidity and multidisciplinary problem-solving.
Fluidity have designed a total of six fountains for Camana Bay’s Town Centre, each unique and appropriate to its setting. Fluidity’s projects worldwide include water design at the Hearst Headquarters in New York and Dubai Festival City, while Garland’s early work includes the fountains at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas.
L’Observatoire International Lighting Designers and Consultants: Exterior Lighting
In 1993, Hervé Descottes established the lighting design and consulting firm L’Observatoire International in New York City. Formally trained lighting designers, architects, interior designers, engineers and artists work together to pursue the common aim of lighting the built environment. The profession of lighting design is a relatively recent phenomenon. L’Observatoire seeks maturation within the field, pulling together an interdisciplinary method to merge the latest technologies with an aesthetic paradigm. Emphasising a collaborative effort, the firm provides lighting design to such disparate spatial expressions as architecture, urban, landscape and fine art projects.
Hervé Descottes and L’Observatoire have been responsible for lighting such landmarks as Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Columbus Circle and the High Line in New York and the lighting scheme for the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. At Camana Bay, Descottes and his team have worked collaboratively with the design team of architects, landscape architects and fountain designers to illuminate the Town Centre after dark.
RESIDENTIAL PLANNERS/ARCHITECTS
Brown Design Studio
The Burns Conolly Group Ltd
Led by principal Burns Conolly, AIA, Cayman’s first registered architect, the firm has been involved in a number of roles in Camana Bay’s development from the initial Urban Planning, the Town Centre design and the newer bespoke buildings in collaboration with the rest of the design team. The Firm has handled all Governmental Authority approvals for the entire town. The company’s Interior Design Team has completed many of the Town Centre Tenant fit-outs and coordinated their move into Camana Bay based on their deep understanding of the base buildings and utilities.
The firm employs a unique professional team including a number of AIA and RIBA architects who have experience throughout the Caribbean, USA, Bermuda, UK, Africa, Jamaica and Cuba. Specializing in large scale master-planned projects, Hospitality, Retail and Commercial buildings as well as associated Interior Design, the company has gained unique experience over the years and developed a deep understanding of construction and development throughout the region. Aside from Camana Bay works, other major projects include the renovation of the 300-room Hilton Hotel in Jamaica, the Kirk Harbour Centre, The Blakes Hotel and The Ironshore Shopping Centre in Montego Bay.
Martinez and Alvarez Architects
Mike Watkins
Moser Design Group
Starr Sanford Design
Torti Gallas and Partners
The most recent addition to the design team at Camana Bay is Torti Gallas Partners. The firm been the recipient of numerous awards for their innovative design work, having won over 350 international, national, and local design awards for planning and design. This recognition by such prestigious groups as the American Institute of Architects, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the National Association of Home Builders establishes Torti Gallas’ long standing commitment to high quality design over their 55-year history.
As architects, they design residential, commercial, and institutional buildings to be in context with their environment, to be functionally and aesthetically innovative, economically sensible, and a delight to the user.
As master planners and urban designers, they create the neighborhoods that integrate architecture and the public realm, and ensure that the buildings, neighborhoods and campuses contribute to the cities and towns of which they are a part, physically, socially, and economically.
