Hyatt Regency Dallas announced completion of the $50-million makeover and upgrade of its 1,120 guest rooms, bathrooms and corridors, lower than a year after construction began and just in time to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the hotel. Dallas-based Woodbine Development Corporation, original developer and asset manager of the hotel and adjoining landmark Reunion Tower, managed the project.
Seeking to capture the identity and personality of “new Dallas,” while aligning with the hotel’s timeless exterior, the team of EDG Interior Architecture and Design and CamargoCopeland Architects took a creative and interpretive solution to creating the hot sleek, sculptural guest-room design.
The re-designed and re-configured rooms offer different options for both work and relaxation, incorporating a lounge chair for reading and watching television, a cozy desk chair, and a chaise lounge where guests can stretch out and luxuriate in the town skyline views or the Texas sunset. To boot, a sculptural, metallic wall screen extending from the headboard and a linear “river mirror” made from an abstracted image of the Trinity River replaced traditional framed art. The mirror integrates with the clean-lined taupe-finished millwork wall. The framed, flat-screen, high-definition TV is flanked by a satin-lacquered tower that offers a tidy storage unit for room accessories.
A richly colored landscape image featured inside the art mirror is also woven into the hotel corridor carpeting. The carpet combines with new sidelight towers on the door drops to create a warm, glowing “candlelight” effect within the hallways. New graphics, signage and a state-of-the-art swipe entry system are also included inside the transformation. The guest-room entry transitions from ceramic tile to neutral-colored carpet that includes a tailored, urban pattern. The completely transformed bathroom is accessed via sliding, modern “barn doors” and features a backlit mirror, a latest, freestanding vanity and an art collage of Dallas-inspired imagery screen-printed onto metal.
“This hotel has become an iconic portion of the Dallas skyline because the first guest checked in here on April 22, 1978. We wish to celebrate that, but together we’re always looking forward,” said Fred Euler , general manager of Hyatt Regency Dallas. “And our new ultra-modern guest rooms not just reflect our city, but in addition they make our guest experience the foremost high-tech and elegant in North Texas.”
Clark Contractors, based in Little Rock, Ark., managed the phased construction project. The Dallas office of Neil Locke & Associates provided FF&E procurement.
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