Photo: Gareth Seah

When Laguna Hotel Holdings Pte Ltd wanted to redesign the Laguna Golf and Country Club, they sought the expertise of the Mercurio Design Lab team to create a design that would combine an existing recreational property and a new exciting hospitality complex. Famous for their avant-garde concepts, Mercurio Design Lab was able to deliver a remarkable work that defines a new level of design in the heart of Singapore.

The challenge to integrate new and existing facilities gave rise to an over-arching structure that would provide a cohesive space with an unfaltering standard of excellence. The sleek, swooping roof, which makes the architecture, disguised the union of the two large distinct functions—hotel and clubhouse—and does not just enclose the building but becomes the body. Its single, unified, seamless roof thrusts up out of the landscape, sweeping up from the ground to create a shelter for the hotel before surging on to cover the existing clubhouse.

The newly built hotel leads off from a central vestibule and provides 198 tastefully designed rooms and suites. It has a group of penthouses with private terraces cut out of the roof as it vaults up from the ground. The golf club functions include golf cart storage, lockers, changing rooms and, etc. With an all-day dining banquet hall, large swimming pools, Thai spa services, and two championship golf courses, Dusit Thani Laguna, a notable golf destination both regionally and locally, boasts of facilities that are perfect for business and leisure. Enticing international clienteles, the Dusit Thani Laguna design had to include a high level of luxury detailing, evident in the carefully sourced materials and finishes.

“The ability to think outside the box and create an iconic building that pushes the boundaries gave our award-winning team a challenge,” commented Massimo Mercurio, Lead Designer, and Managing Director. “Rather than a blank canvas, we had to use our imagination and vision as designers to work on the existing clubhouse and incorporate it into a unifying design that not only fulfilled the practical brief but achieved a ground-breaking innovation which our practice is renowned. To win this prestigious award is a reaffirmation that our studio is a recognized global leader in architecture and design.”

The astounding details, knowledge, creativity, and experimentalism that the Mercurio Design Lab team displayed to fulfill and exceed the brief was strongly apparent to The Luxury Lifestyle Awards panel who awarded them the title Best Hotel Architecture for Singapore for Dusit Thani Laguna.