Location
Khao Yai, Thailand
Date
2023
Client
MYS Khao Yai
Architect
Urban Praxis Co., Ltd.
Team
Interior Designers : Apichaya Krongboonying and Kalunyoo Sipiyaruk
Lighting Designer : SEAM Design
Landscape architect : Magla Landscape Co., Ltd.
Structural Engineer : Supol Techanakara, Thawatchai Pengsuwa, Ruethatip Kerdperm, Pongsiri Prechaponkit
Civil Engineer: Wandee Boonsom
MEP Engineer: Thirachart Channgam
Electrical Engineer: Narongrit Thammapradit
Project Management: Manmade Interiors Co., Ltd.
Construction Management: Project Asia
MYS Khao Yai Hotel will be the newest boutique destination in Khao Yai, Thailand. Featuring contemporary modern Scandinavian inspired Thai design, guests will enjoy beautifully appointed decor that blurs interior and exterior of the common amenity spaces and private villas.
The main reception lobby features a levitating outdoor swimming pool and is connected to a lounge cafe that opens to expansive highly curated gardens across the hotel grounds. The hotel will also feature a wine bar and Michelin level all-day dining. Exclusive visitors can also book two residences on the hotel property for special events and occasions.
Lighting caters to the various activities and special events for guests looking for a quiet countryside destination within some of the most beautiful mountainous parks of the country. MYS Khao Yai can also be booked for special events where the gardens and facilities can host weddings and other special occasions.
Photography
DOF Sky Ground
Diagrams & Illustrations by SEAM
Location
Bangkok, Thailand
Date
2018
Client
PACE Development Corporation
Design
David Collins Studio
Executive architect
L49
The Ritz-Carlton Residences are luxury apartments set within the MahaNakhon tower development in Bangkok. SEAM worked closely with David Collins Studio to bring light to luxury, for residents to enjoy exquisitely styled lobby and lounge areas, activity and fitness rooms, cocktail bar and dining areas and a beautiful outdoor pool deck, across three exclusive floors.
Photography
Srirath Somsawat
Location
London, UK
Date
2019
Client
Brookfield
Architect
Foster + Partners
Team
Hurley Palmer Flatt
At the forefront of new developments emerging in central London stands the recently completed 50-storey Principal Tower designed by Foster + Partners. Joining the exclusive league of tall towers in the City cluster, the tower is characterised by an elegant silhouette made more slender by curved corner windows that also provide panoramic views over London. Its realisation crowns the Principal Place mixed-use development and completes the composition of buildings which together offer highly desired commercial and residential accommodation at the edge of Shoreditch and the City.
Tasked with bringing landmark status to this prestigious address in the evenings, SEAM developed an original feature lighting strategy that accentuates its signature vertical profile. In the absence of local precedent for feature facade lighting of residential towers, extensive analysis was conducted to ensure maximum visual expression and minimal nuisance to residents. Dynamic addressable lighting along the fins of each floor is integrated neatly within the architectural detail of the spandrel. From the early evening to the late-night hours, the facade lighting gradually brightens towards the crown making Principal Tower an iconic landmark on the skyline of London.
Photography
Brookfield
Foster + Partners
Location
Bangkok, Thailand
Date
2018
Clients
PACE Development Corporation
King Power
Architects
Buro: Ole Scheeren
Palmer & Turner Co
L49
The 314-metre MahaNakhon Tower became Bangkok’s tallest building when complete. SEAM, as the lead architectural-lighting designer for the tower facade and public realm, was briefed by Buro: Ole Scheeren to transform this much anticipated landmark into “a beautiful architectural sculpture at night”.
How do we light a supertall, asymmetric facade to become the largest artwork in Southeast Asia? For clues, SEAM studied the development’s massing, geometry, functions, urban situation and skyline position, and analysed the many observer scenarios – including by whom, from where, for how long, at which angles, and through which urban vistas – to then expand the lighting brief in response to the context and potential. Discarding the traditional high-rise ‘crown lighting’ approach, SEAM connects MahaNakhon Tower’s facade lighting intrinsically with Buro: Ole Scheeren’s architecture, with a programmable system that animates the tower’s signature eroded geometry. SEAM studied each storey’s spatial organisation to identify 640 spandrel-panel luminaire locations which together preserve every tenants’ interior lighting autonomy while emphasising MahaNakhon Tower’s unique pixelated form.
The animation’s duration and movement respond to the many possible viewer perspectives: from pedestrians approaching via Silom Road, to passengers pausing at the nearby Chong Nonsi elevated metro station, to drivers stuck in North Sathon Road’s traffic, and to the guests and residents of Bangkok’s many high-rise hotels and condos who see MahaNakhon Tower from great distance. Regulated to seasonal hours with an astronomical clock, this dynamic programme follows the city’s daily activity cycle, echoing the busy horizontal vectors of the evening rush-hour, before eventually receding into the night sky.
Visible throughout the city, MahaNakhon Tower has become a night-and-day icon for Bangkok, appearing as a key attractor in global tourism coverage, and driving local renewal. SEAM’s lighting elevates MahaNakhon Tower from architectural landmark to dynamic public artwork, and a glowing emblem for Bangkok’s emerging status as the design capital of Southeast Asia.
Awards
2019 CTBUH Design Awards – Best Tall Building (300–399 metres) – Award of Excellence
2015 Asia Pacific Property Awards – Best Mixed-Use Development Thailand
2015 Asia Pacific Property Awards – Best Apartment / Condominium Development Thailand
2015 Asia Pacific Property Awards – Highly Commended Residential High-Rise Development Thailand
2014 South East Asia Property Awards – Best Condo Development South East Asia
2014 South East Asia Property Awards – Best Condo Development Thailand
2014 Thailand Property Awards – Best Luxury Condo Development Bangkok
Photography
Srirath Somsawat
Location
Bangkok, Thailand
Date
2018
Client
PACE Development Corporation
Design
David Collins Studio
Executive architect
L49
The Ritz-Carlton Residences are luxury apartments set within the iconic MahaNakhon tower development in Bangkok. From early morning to late night, the Lounge and Bar areas at Level 54 offer stunning panoramic views of the Bangkok skyline, allowing tenants to observe the change of the city below. Through fresh daytime lighting to cosy evenings to late night drama, SEAM’s lighting is folded into the spaces and details, adding to the rich and luxurious signature quality of David Collins Studio’s design and the Ritz Carlton brand.
Photography
Srirath Somsawat
Location
London, UK
Date
2019
Client
Izaki Group Investments
Architects
Fletcher Priest Architects
ODA
Landscape
Alexandra Steed / URBAN
Situated in the heart of Shoreditch, Long & Waterson is a residential refurbishment, extension and new build that creates a new garden oasis in the middle of one of London’s most intensely creative neighbourhoods. The project includes a central landscaped garden designed by the award-winning Alexandra Steed / URBAN, which is framed by refurbished workshop buildings and the newly built Waterson Building.
SEAM has designed the lighting for all front-of-house areas, including landscape, reception, lounge, gym and spa facilities, apartments and penthouse suites. Our approach focuses on the quality of the architecture and landscape, taking cues from the original Long Street Workshops’ craft heritage and allowing the light sources themselves to become an integral part of the craft vocabulary and uniqueness of the development.
"London's coolest new address" - Long & Waterson
Images
Courtesy of Izaki Group Investments
Location
London, UK
Date
2016
Client
Nido Student Living
Architect
Tigg + Coll Architects
Lighting design plays a major part in complementing the raw material palette and quirky character of Nido Spitalfields, a new high-end skyscraper for student accommodation in the heart of the City of London. At 33 storeys, it is one of the tallest student residences in the world, proudly offering all the amenities for student life including a library, gallery cafe and shop. Focussing strategically on the main conceptual drive of creating an informal relaxed space serving the creative needs of young students, SEAM worked closely with Tigg+Coll architects to produce a highly diversified lighting scheme that supports a variety of functions.
Photography
Andy Matthews
Location
London, UK
Date
2012
Client
Private
Architect
Gianni Botsford Architects
Interior
Chiara Ferrari Studio
Breathing a second life into a Grade II-listed residence is sensitively executed in this well-balanced architectural play between historic elements and modern enhancements. This attitude of optimising the potential is carried through the lighting, where a custom home system provides easy control of the tailored scheme. Working in collaboration with Gianni Botsford Architects, ME Construction, Chiara Ferrari Studio, and Winters Electrical, SEAM provided full lighting design services from concept to completion with final aiming and focusing for this five-level residence located in Marylebone. Special features of the residence include a bespoke modern kitchen, feature glass and steel stair, feature light sculpture set within the original listed staircase, new-build garden room, and roof terrace.
Photography
Edmund Sumner
Location
Southampton, UK
Status
Construction
Client
Maggie's Foundation
Architect
AL_A
In a forest clearing, a mirrored pavilion transports people to a place of safety and comfort. SEAM’s lighting will engender the interior spaces with a relaxing atmosphere, while the gardens glow during the evening hours, activating the reflective facade.
“This is a building which emerges from an apparently abstract plan with an almost ethereal clarity. The project imagines the haven of a garden transported from the New Forest into the midst of the hospital’s concrete landscape. This arboreal context and wild naturalistic topography offers seclusion and protection from the outside world.
Subtle, light and with a rainbow of colours from the garden, this is an exquisite design to lift the weight off the shoulders of all who visit and all who work in it.”
AL_A