JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa

Palm Desert, California

Role: Prime Consultant
Size: 28 meeting rooms totaling over 100,000 SF
Completed: 2003

This grand hotel boasts alluring indoor and outdoor amenities. Edged by an 18-hole championship golf course, this Four Diamond resort offers guest rooms and suites in five-to-eight-story wings surrounding swimming pools, lakes, verdant fairways, lush English gardens, and manicured lawns. Fine dining, sizzling night-life, an exquisite spa, expansive pools, and gondolas that ferry guests around the meandering waterways compose the menu of amenities. Additionally, the resort is home to one of the largest convention complexes in the southwestern United States.

The client approached SKA to provide wayfinding expertise for a remodel project of the ballroom and meeting space. SKA worked closely with the interior designer to create an elegant system. The effort yielded a design solution of stone and cast bronze with contemporary curves and decorative patina coloring. SKA also developed a dynamic sign system with plasma displays to provide real-time event information.