JW Marriott Los Cabos Beach Resort & Spa Lot Size: 13 Acres Building Size: 561,000 SF Location: Puerto Los Cabos, Mexico Primary Project Type: Commercial
JW Marriott Los Cabos Beach Resort & Spa The design of the JW Marriott Puerto Los Cabos Resort seamlessly blends architecture and art with the site’s powerful desert landscape and an endless panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Though separated from the water by a 35-foottall dune, the resort provides visitors with an immediate connection to its natural context, beginning with a horizonframing view from the main arrival hall.
Open travertine-covered hallways and floors mix with local soil aggregates, further blurring the physical boundaries of indoors and outdoors, site and architecture. The thoughtfully designed guest rooms, library, bar and restaurant are dressed in rich textures and warm desert tones, resulting in a sense of comfort, elegance and earthiness. Specially crafted art pieces commissioned from Mexican artisans including Jaume Plensa, Jorge Yázpik, and Sam Falls are woven into the interior and exterior spaces of the resort, as well as individual guest rooms.
The ocean view takes center stage from nearly every place in the resort as visitors explore intuitive pathways throughout the property. Just past the main entry, two infinity pools appear to connect with the water beyond; as guests move throughout the property, they are greeted with unexpected glimpses of the The landscape design integrates a range of striking and water, which is framed by native landscaping and sculpted sand beautiful indigenous species including the enigmatic Cardon dunes that stretch 750 feet across the front of the property. plant, a type of thorn scrub, and native Torote and Palo Blanco trees, which were hand-selected from local forests. Royal, The grandeur of the 299-room, 561,000 square foot resort is Date, and Mexican Fan Palms accentuate the architecture and honed to an intimate scale starting with the entry hall where a reinforce the site’s relationship to nature, while select exotic cadence of tall columns inspired by pre-Columbian architecture plants provide bold color in the sunken gardens, such as the draws visitors forward. In the grand gathering spaces such Gardens of Paradise. as the 8,000 square foot ballroom, large steel girders are wrapped in dark wood, and soffits are incorporated throughout which lend warmth and a human scale to large spaces. Smooth concrete and stucco buildings throughout the complex were designed to appear as if they are native to the site; the color palette was derived from the sand of the nearby desert.