Pritam Singh in the News
Key West Resort has Winning Landscape
The Citizen 07.26.2009
KEY WEST Resort has winning landscape
The Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has selected Parrot Key Resort, a five-acre luxury waterfront hotel located in the New Town section of Key West, to receive a 2009 Award of Honor at the organization's annual conference Friday in Fort Myers.
"The first priority was to take advantage of the property's waterfront and to pay homage to the scale and character of Key West architecture, streetscapes and landscapes," said Elizabeth Newland, Singh Resorts landscape architect. "This award from the FLASLA validates our efforts to craft an authentic Key West setting."
Newland and developer Pritam Singh created an island atmosphere at Parrot Key by lining the resort in a canopy of coconut palms, bougainvillea and native beachfront plants. The vegetation used is more than 90 percent native Florida Keys vegetation, with no turf grass on site -- exceeding the city's code requirements for native vegetation and tree caliper.
In keeping with the smaller, traditional scale of Key West, the interior courtyard has four intimate swimming pools that are surrounded with gardens to create a sense of privacy and walkways that encourage guests to wander from pool to pool. Each pool garden has a distinctive theme based on color palettes from the earth, sky, water and fire.
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