This is a new construction luxury multifamily high rise in Colorado. The client requested that the design be themed after the movie Avatar and its jungle planet, Pandora. Our team was directed to select finishes, furniture, and decorative lighting for all amenity spaces and corridors. We were also charged with designing as many feature walls and seating areas as the space could hold. We chose various specific themes to focus on in each space. The Fitness Center, for example, was meant to resemble the nighttime scenes - a dark jungle filled with bioluminescent plants. This method helped us to work with the “jungle” theme without, understandably, relying on the color green.

We incorporated many bold wallcoverings, colorful quartzites, and even ceiling finishes to carry the theme of the brightly colored and oversized planet through all amenity spaces. In the VIP corridors, we selected a custom carpet runner that displays creatures flying over rough waves to represent the banshees ridden into battle. Preserved moss features on the ceiling and down the menu wall in the South Lobby bistro and in the West Lobby’s mail room. Natural toned woods feature throughout all spaces to soften the bolder designs and tie the amenities together. Deep custom sofas provide comfortable seating in lounge areas, along with oversized lounge chairs and soft leather banquettes. Large custom lighting fixtures provide a focal point that draws the eye not only to fixture itself, but to the finishes and built in features on the ceilings.

Our design intent was to provide warm, lush, and welcoming surroundings for the building’s residents and staff in keeping with both the requested theme and the overall luxury of the building. We have provided various types of seating to encourage residents who want to work or lounge to do whichever they please, wherever they please, and there is plenty of space for them to also do so with guests. The Mail/Market area and Bistro provide easy access to snacks and beverages in a manner that feels far more luxe than convenient. We strove to find the most unique luxury in the balance of light and dark, bright and neutral, and soft and hard. This building is certainly one of a kind.