Lms Architects

Coping with NPS guidelines, regulations, codes… I am surprised they didn’t bail. Marsha, Beth, Angus and the others… they are incredible architects that are tireless, talented, and visionaries.
Due to the power of value engineering, they also had to sit, calmly… and patiently… and watch broad banal brush strokes of beige paint over their genius canvases… and they calmly nodded their heads and went back to the drawing boards. What they came up with, especially for the spa, was unheralded… unbelievable… and that glass transom roof would have been spectacular. But in the end, that VE dismantled a lot of the most beautiful and innovative design I have ever seen in the business.
Also, they had worked with federal, department of interior, the parks, etc. They had dealt with the processes before, but nothing could have prepared them for the historic architectural mandates on the contemporary lodging… pitch of rooves, colour of orange red. It was wild.
And you know what…
after the crippling redesigns and stutter steps due to so many permitting and permission processes, we ended up with what could be considered the most beautiful hotel in the entire state of California.
I am somewhat certain that must feel pretty good. It does for us, so we say thanks and would hire them again in a second. That is, if they would work with us! =) THANKS GUYS