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Think of the setting of your last professional group meeting. Neutral colors, vast blank walls and ballpoint pens probably come to mind. These tools hardly promote the creativity and innovation that are the expected results of off-site meetings. Companies today - from design firms to law firms - demand productive and memorable meetings and events. Hotel Sax Chicago, management firm Gemstone Hotels and Resorts International, LLC and design firm VOA Associates have unveiled the latest result of a multi-million dollar hotel renovation, a state-of-the-art meeting and ballroom space -- an event space with a point of view.
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Upon exiting the elevators, visitors to the 4th FL are greeted by The Hub, an arrival space and meeting touch point. The Hub is fashioned around a semi-circular wall that features a state of the art 36" video wall, capable of displaying high-definition video and computer graphics on a seamless group of 36 lcd screens. Run via the most advanced video software technology, the video wall will feature a pre-programmed video that will change with the time of day and season, and can also be customized with content from meeting and event clients. Guests can take in the video wall while relaxing on a circular leather banquet, located just in front of the video installation.
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| Moving toward the middle of the space, guests will find The Bar, an intimate multi-functional area that houses a movable bar for any and all pre-function uses. The Bar will be utilized for meeting break food and beverage service, for cocktail service during the evening, and can be customized for any client function or need. |
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The Hub and Bar arrival areas are joined to the larger meeting space by a central Control Center rotunda area, which provides access to all rooms and ballrooms. Stretching to the unfinished ceiling, this is the largest volume space on the meeting floor. A blue, dream-like polycarbonate sculpture - paired with a sail-like lighting feature that pierces the length of the space - stretches above the middle of the Control Center. It also serves as an impromptu meeting and conversation area, and was designed to accept much of the meeting space's furnishings in a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere.
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| Just off the Control Center area is the floor's Business Center, which features 3 desktop computer workstations, along with printing and fax capabilities. |
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| Each meeting room offers the latest in technology ranging from 10' high projection walls to 60" LCD HDTV plasma screens and in room connection to DVD, CD, VHS and MP3 hook up. Variable temperature and lighting controls in each room allow for the user to adjust comfort levels and the capability to change light intensity from candle light to daylight. Large digital displays are stationed outside each doorway, clearly identifying the group in session, as well displaying any possible digital content. |
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| LONDON: 410 sf, 12'-0 ceilings |
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This euro-style living room holds a fireplace and adult refreshment area with a 60" LCD HDTV plasma screen. Sectional pit-style sofa pieces recline and allow for group meetings or break out space within this, the most intimate of the rooms. This space is ideal for small group discussions of 8-10 or traditional conferencing up to 12. The space can also be sold with the adjacent room, Paris; with the flip of a switch, a plate of charged glass located between the two rooms can become transparent, allowing guests to see and interact with the Paris room. The room also has built-in a credenza area for food and beverage service.
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| PARIS: 1000 sf, 12'-0" ceilings |
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This home theater style meeting space connects to the London room (sharing the charged glass divider) and promotes the highest quality, in-ceiling video projection system. Light weight, interlocking geometrical sofa elements grace this spacious room to allow for multiple group settings or mass viewing of presentations. Warm wood panels and bold blue furnishings dress the room for contemporary group session or individual plug-and-play abilities. The room has independent audio capabilities, as well as storage and a built-in credenza for food and beverage service.
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| TOKYO / RIO: 535sf, 12'-0" ceilings; with Rio de Janeiro add 380sf, 12'-0" ceilings |
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These yin-yang rooms are designed to work together. Separated by a unique, moveable wall that retracts into the ceiling this combination of asymmetrical rooms offers both the high quality, in ceiling video projection and 60" LCD HDTV plasma screens. Allowing for 40 person theater seating or 24 person conferencing these twin rooms combine to make the most flexible presentation or work space. Clean lined, deep seated sofas and pivoting chairs huddle in the room to create. Once separated, the Tokyo room offers the in-ceiling projection, and Rio de Janeiro offers the plasma screen option. Both rooms have independent audio and storage capabilities, as well as built-in credenzas for food and beverage service.
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| BOARDROOM: 593sf, 11'-0' ceilings, seating for 16. |
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Something old is some thing new in this modern adaptation of a boardroom. An asymmetrical room adorned in cherry wood panels that play with vertical and horizontal interpretations, the clean look of this room blends seamlinessly with the technology that supports it. The 60"LCD HDTV plasma screen is hidden behind sliding cherry panels. The users laptop has the ability to control the media, sound system and environmental settings. (The Boardroom also enables guests to experience enhanced, note-taking software and hardware technology, designed by Microsoft, that negates the need for whiteboards or flip charts.) The room has a unique “skylight" lighting feature, as well as a built-in credenza.
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| THE AMERICAS BALLROOM: 2 rooms, 3,670sf total, 11'-0" ceilings |
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These modernist ballrooms host no chandeliers. Hidden projection screens and retractable video projectors allow for the space to transform in seconds from 230 person meeting space to a contemporary ball room reception for 200. Variable lighting controls allows for a candlelight seated dinner reception for 180 that takes on a warm, intimate elegance. Supported by the various pre-function seating spaces and contemporary bar area, the entire pre-function space can be color-coded and digitally enhanced through lighting controls, and The Hub's 36' media wall, customized to your event.
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Also accessible through the Control Center is The Retreat, a quiet oasis within the meeting and event space. Always open, the unique space of The Retreat was designed to be a calming, rejuvenating place for guests to relax between or before meetings or events. With ultra-comfortable furniture, faux-window-box seating, and a waterfall installation, The Retreat is mean to be a refuge; a place to “recharge the batteries" after the intensity and concentration that creatively-focused meetings demand.
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