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Awards & press

Recognition earned by the projects, and the coverage that followed them.

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Awards

  • 2024

    The first MICHELIN Key hotels

    MICHELIN Guide  ·  The Georgian Hotel

  • 2024

    The 100 Best New Hotels of the Year

    Travel + Leisure  ·  The Georgian Hotel

  • 2022

    Development of the Year, Select/Limited Service

    ALIS  ·  citizenM Downtown LA

  • 2021

    Gold Medal CRE Award

    LA Business Journal  ·  Soho Warehouse

  • 2020

    Hotel Deal of the Year

    LA Business Journal  ·  The Georgian Hotel

  • 2020

    Citation Award for Adaptive Reuse

    SoCal Development Forum  ·  Soho Warehouse

  • 2020

    #1 Los Angeles Hotel

    TripAdvisor  ·  The Hoxton, Downtown LA

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In my own words

Interviews and coverage that quote me directly.

A Hotel Life In conversation with Nicolo Rusconi A long interview on building, storytelling, and why architecture, real estate and hospitality are art forms. Robb Report Santa Monica’s Georgian Hotel Just Reopened With a New Art Deco Design “The Georgian is our baby” — on the first project where BLVD held the brand, design vision and operations end to end. Hotel Online BLVD Hospitality and ESI Ventures to Relaunch The Georgian The acquisition and restoration announcement, with Jon Blanchard and Nicolo Rusconi. Hotel News Resource BLVD Hospitality Acquires Santa Monica’s Historic Ocean Ave Hotel Coverage of the acquisition and the portfolio behind it.
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The projects elsewhere

Where the buildings are written about by people other than me.

The Georgian Hotel

Press archive ↗

The hotel’s own collection — Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Hospitality Design and more.

citizenM Downtown LA

Project record ↗

The Modular Building Institute’s record of the first high-rise modular hotel on the West Coast.

citizenM Downtown LA

Construction case study ↗

How 315 rooms were manufactured off-site and stacked eleven storeys in a severe seismic zone.

The Georgian has also appeared in Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, the Hollywood Reporter and the Los Angeles Times. The hotel keeps the fullest archive.

Contact

Press enquiries.

nico@casarusca.com

For interviews, commentary on hospitality and adaptive reuse, or anything about the projects above.