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CALM OR CHOPPY, WHY IS THERE NO DIFFERENCE FOR THE BGM75? For the first time, two synchronised stabilisers have been installed on a multihull. No one has done it before: once again Bluegame has taken on a new challenge.

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Color stories A new world in color

Interviews

PEOPLE AW2

Imagining and building a micro-universe

PEOPLE Gigi Servidati Built on patience and passion PEOPLE Tristan Mortlock

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WONDER

Bay of fame Sailing gently

Shipyard

Baglietto

14 West Flanders and Westtoer

8TH Beaufort Triennial | 27 March to 3 November 2024 | Untitled by Jef Meyer

Projects review

16 Vollenhove, The Netherlands | Royal Huisman Project 410, 85m New World Sloop 18 Red Sea, Saudi Arabia | Nujuma, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve | Foster and Partners 78 Comporta, Portugal | JNcQUOI Beach Club Vincent Van Duysen Architects 80 Hamneskär Island, Sweden

Pater Noster Lighthouse | Stylt

The leadership and development of a boutique shipyard

Atmosphere Leogang, Austria

A work of art between water and mountains

Fly 72 Azimut Yachts

Timeless design

O Lofos Crete, Greece

82 Brno | Moravian Square Park Revitalization

Consequence forma architects

The sea’s embrace

Klaksvík Row Club Fær Øer Islands

128 Samanà, Dominican Republic

Cayo Levantado Resort Grupo Piñero | Arquimilio

Faroese identity

Oceano 39 Mangusta Yachts

130 Chengdu, China | West First Bridge

Zaha Hadid Architects ZHA

The sea without, the design within

Montesol Experimental Ibiza

132 Egypt | El Gouna Conference

and Cultural Centre | Studio Seilern Architects

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Bohemian rooms and beach club at the water’s edge

Quality Hotel Richard With

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Mu Feng Yue Hot Spring Hotel Fengxi New City, China

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Modern zen

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This is it Tecnomar Where water meets glass Capofaro Locanda & Malvasia Salina, Italy

120 Aeolian memory Port of Montreal Tower and Grand Quay

124 Access to the water, entryway to the city St. Regis Red Sea Resort Ummahat Al Shaykh, Saudi Arabia

138 The ethics of hospitality Swan 108 Nautor Swan

146 A Fancy generation Pier 57 New York

150 A waterfront experience Cong Banquet Hangzhou, China

152 Between heaven and earth 80 Eco Sunreef Yachts

156 Powered by the sun, water, and wind Club House Valle San Nicolàs Valle de Bravo, Mexico

160 Nature all around

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165 A wide view on major international projects

Design inspirations

175 A selection of the most innovative products

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185 A preview of the upcoming global projects

Business at sea

192 Italy: queen of superyachts

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EDITORIAL

Fall 2024

RUBEN MODIGLIANI Editor-in-Chief

A story of projects and water

here is a photo in this new publication of the .Wonder Book series that I find particularly full of meaning; it is of the installation designed by the artist Jef Meyer for the 2024 Beaufort Triennial on the Belgian coast. A micro-architecture on the beach, this is a tower to be climbed to take in a view of the sea. It tells the story of an idea, that of the “horizon,” a concept both geographical and philosophical; the idea of the boundary, the distant, unknown place that is a part of us in a sense. This is a connecting thread throughout the pages of this publication, a journey exploring the many ways we have of living in the world of water, an element from which we come and of which we are made. The projects we have chosen all give form to this feeling in a vast variety of expressions. There is the archaic minimalism of a house in Crete, luxury tied to sustainability in a resort on the Red Sea, hightech content, and the definition of a new concept of traveling in state-of-the-art yachts (a sector that is now very dynamic, involving an increasing number of large architecture and design firms.) We find the infinite facets of one of our most defining human instincts – to build – in a dialogue with the oldest element. The journey continues.

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CURATOR’S LETTER

Fall 2024

ALESSANDRA BERGAMINI Deputy Editor

The adventure of designing

s every architect will say, traveling is fundamental for creating architecture. I think it is fair to say that designing architecture or “scapesm” whether landscape, cityscape, naturescape, or waterscape, inherently involves undertaking an adventure. It is a fundamental journey to explore the context, whether very near or very distant, always the fruit of a complex mix of history, culture, nature, and experience. Exploration is essential to successfully design a vision on the site, heightening its value and power. As Stéphanie Ledoux and Reda Amalou of the Paris-based studio AW2 say in their interview: “Architectural expression is also part of where we are. And this is true especially in hospitality when people travel to understand other cultures. Giving meaning to buildings by anchoring them to the place where they’ve been designed and built, this is really critical to works of architecture.” This idea is borne out by all the projects chosen for this .Wonder Book Fall 2024. The projects range from those envisioning new blue-green urbanscapes like the Klaksvik Row Club in the Fær Øer Islands, the Pier 57 on Manhattan’s waterfront, the Port of Montreal Tower, the Quality Hotel Richard With on the Norwegian archipelago of Vesterålen, and the Kyjov Aquapark in the Czech Republic to those that aspire to absorb/be absorbed in the surrounding landscape and nature, like the Spa Atmosphere in the Austrian Alps, the Carbon Beach House in Malibu, the Mexican Clubhouse San Nicolas, and the St. Regis Red Sea Resort. Others are situated on islands in the Mediterranean area, such as the Villa O lofos in Crete and the Capofaro Locanda & Malvasia retreat built in an abandoned lighthouse in Salina. Some of the projects are like sailing islands themselves, such as the motor and sailing yachts of Azimut, Mangusta, Pershing, Tankoa, Tecnomar, Sunreef, Swan, and the Explora Journey cruise ship. They are all ready for a journey of exploration between nature and culture, seizing opportunities to find new knowledge and experiences. IFDM | 13

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WEST FLANDERS AND WESTTOER | 8TH BEAUFORT TRIENNIAL | 27 MARCH TO 3 NOVEMBER 2024 | UNTITLED BY JEF MEYER Curator Els Wuyts invited 18 national and international artists who created 18 artworks under the theme Fabric of Life: “The various locations in the different coastal municipalities are ideal for visualising certain

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narratives. They provide an opportunity for sometimes invisible legends to speak, for us to find traces of certain historical events or to highlight themes that concern us.”

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As a milestone during the shipyard’s anniversary year, Royal Huisman has turned the hull of its largest super-sized sailing yacht project ever, the world’s largest yacht with a single mast.

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The private island retreat, nestled in the Blue Hole cluster of islands, has lush landscaping, shell-inspired architecture, and interiors crafted with natural materials and Arabic artifacts.

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Fall 2024

COLOR STORIES

A new world in color Color Trends 2025’s original palettes reflect today’s demographic changes and the future of global economies Author: Veronica Orsi

new Wonder Book, a new Color Story. Our journey into the multi-colored, nuanced universe of Color Trends 2025, is told like a serialized novel in four annual editions of this collectible publication. No single color dictates fashions and influences consumers. According to ColorWorks™ Design and Technology Center, our partner in this color adventure, there are 20 of them: the palette is full and sophisticated, coming first from an in-depth broad analysis of society – particularly worldwide shifts that herald major coming changes. ColorWorks™’s team intuits them a year ahead of time, using these “premonitions” to forecast major trends that will inspire the masses. Even more so, they may influence the response of future consumers. It associates these 20 colors – five for each macro-trend or Story as the team prefers to call them. This palette, which makes up ColorForward™ 2025, becomes “the synthesis of the ColorWorks™ vision of the world of tomorrow, seen through the lens of trends and color associations.” The sense of disorientation, expectation, and seeking balance that has been key in recent years influences the color choices, orienting them towards many interferential colors and neutral hues, accentuated by a few salient vibrant colors. ColorForward™ 2025 adds a healthy dose of blue to these, which is well represented here along with “complex” greens and oranges. We find these colors in the first Story, “Carpe Mortem” where desaturated colors mark the current theme of seeking immortality (or, more precisely, wanting to have a long, peaceful life.) Likewise, in the second Story, “Easy Peasy,” the values of longevity and modularity in product design – ever more closely studied – are essential parts of a wider idea of sustainability. This mindset is interpreted by a warmer and more vibrant palette. This brings us to our third Story, “Elevens,” which is about demographic changes on a 20 | IFDM

worldwide level and foreshadows the fourth and last Story (to be discovered in the next Wonder Book) “Destination Salvation”: we will come back to the theme (that already emerged last year) on the wave of negativity caused by ongoing catastrophic events that many are facing with a mix of irony and seriousness. Roberto Romanin, senior designer of ColorWorks™, talks about colors, trends, and news.

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PEOPLE

IMAGINING AND BUILDING A MICRO-UNIVERSE The French studio AW2 has long worked in hospitality design, creating architectural micro-systems anchored to local culture and geographical contexts where they make their targeted design vision a reality.

hough their studio is in Paris, Reda Amaloux and Stéphanie Ledoux from the start, more than twenty years ago, designed architecture and interiors for hospitality outside of France, in southeast Asia. Many of their projects are still abroad in the hotel and resort industry, with clients like Six Senses, Banyan Tree, Four Seasons, Wink Hotel, and Ritz Carlton. Their design approaches borrow inspiration from the local cultural context for each project. Their goal is to create a micro-universe with multiple functions that make it the perfect setting in which to appreciate the place and its genius loci, whether we are traveling in the desert, amidst the Alps, or in a densely packed urban setting. “All our projects are based on the fact that we are able to create visions. And this is the key to the development of our projects, it’s not about what we do, but how we get there.” Not only is it about the “how” but also the ability to read the “inherent intelligence” of a place, its geographic, climate, cultural, and production context, i.e. what the place can express before the architects come in. “Our architectural expression is also part of where we are.”

author: Alessandra Bergamini portrait photo: Mikael Bénard projects photo: Oki Hiroyuki (Wink Hotel Saigon), David Mitchener (Six Senses Con Dao), Ales Vyslouzil Photography for AW2 (Banyan Tree AlUla)

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How would you tell the story of your firm in brief? Reda Amalou: I created a company 27 years ago; it started as a sort of one-man show and then Stéphanie joined shortly after and became a partner in 2003. About twenty years ago, we started working in the hospitality sector outside French borders, in Southeast Asia, where we developed a lot of projects that were very new for us at the time. We have been continuing with our clients since then. This experience basically gave us references and know-how partly due to the fact that the phenomenon of boutique hotels came to Asia 15 years before Europe. The first Aman opened in 1988. I think that a hotel like Amanpuri in Phuket did not exist in Europe at that time. No one would have even understood what the model was. I think that what happened there was really innovative and changed hospitality worldwide. Stéphanie Ledoux: What’s important in the development of the firm is that outside France we worked in a lot of countries. We are used to working abroad in different contexts with very different people, and this is part of our story. All our projects are based on the fact that we are able to create visions, having everybody focused on the same vision. And this is the key to the development of our projects, it’s not about what we do, but how we do it. You are still working a lot in Southeast Asia, for example in Vietnam. How is it to work there? RA: Vietnam is a big part of our story, as the first major project we ever designed and built was in Vietnam. We started working there when they had recently opened outwards after years of almost total closure. They were really open to new things and to the rest of the world. The whole country was energized by this drive for renewal, and at the same time they were in need of know-how and new skills. It was really a crazy time and amazing to be part of that moment. Vietnam is really an important part of our story as designers. Interestingly, we are still working there today after 25 years.

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