Cache Creek Resort Hotel

14455 Highway 16, Brooks, California 95606 United States

Building Area (sf): 410,000

Completion: October 2020

Architect of Record:

HBG Design

• Geoff Wyonzek – Principal-in-Charge / Project Manager
• Nathan Peak, AIA – Principal / Design Director / Lead Architectural Designer
• Emily Marshall, IIDA, NCIDQ – Principal / Interior Design Director / Lead Interior Designer
• Jonathan Larson, AIA - Project Architect

• Owner/Client:
• General Contractor: Hill International
• Electrical: • M/E/P Engineer: NV5
  • Structural Engineer: DeSimone
  • Lighting Designer: Illuminating Concepts
  • Civil Engineer: Wood Patel Associates
  • Landscape Designer/Architect: TBG Partners
  
• Engineering:
  
• Other:
  
• Photography:
  Photographer: Peter Malinowski / Insite Photography
  
  1. Architecturally, the exterior design fits seamlessly within its idyllic setting and is a fresh take on the California Mission-style aesthetic reflected in the four-diamond resort property.
  2. It was this idyllic beauty surrounding the Cache Creek Casino Resort that inspired the design aesthetic for the resort’s luxurious new $180 million, 450,000 SF, 459-room resort expansion/renovation.
  3. The center bar is surrounded at each corner by four hexagon-shaped columns and honeycomb pattern screens that give intimacy to the energetic lounge space.
  4. An ode to the honeybee and its importance to the surrounding agriculture, the center bar’s wildly geometric ceiling plane contrasts with a spiral golden light fixture to emulate the frenzied hive.
  5. The energy of life found throughout the valley can be felt in the design of the center bar.
  6. The small Enso Sushi Bar blends color and texture found in the almond blossom to produce an Far Eastern inspired setting. Above, a hanging ‘immersive canopy’ element grounds the space, while natural wood grain and organic cork and bamboo divider walls and screens provide connection to nature through biophilic design principles.
  7. The C2 Steak & Seafood restaurant’s rich custom millwork and dramatic glass globe pendant light wall emulates the bounty of the valley’s wine country and cattle farms.
  8. The dramatic feature wall of pendants bounces and filters light through each of its wine and magenta colored glass globe lights.
  9. C2 Steak & Seafood
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  11. VIP Suite – Floor 1. An exciting new feature of the expansion program is a Las-Vegas inspired Presidential Suite only available to the resort’s top tier VIP guests. Set on the upper floors of the hotel, the spacious two-story suite boasts an elevator, a grand stair, master and guest bedrooms and corresponding en suite baths, a private media/theater room, private spa and private fitness room.
  12. VIP Suite – Floor 2
  13. The grand stair is the optimal vantage point to explore all the detail, including the intricate coffered ceiling pattern. Designers incorporated tones of lilac grey with soft neutrals and minimal contrast to embody nature at its most serene. High-end, residential-inspired furnishings, fixtures and timeless materials create a truly engaging and one-of-a kind upscale experience.
  14. Linear geometry, biophilic design, organic textural material and pattern, and rich, refined color bring the valley inwards to connect the suite design to the agrarian nature of the valley.
  
  

The new resort hotel’s design experience connects to the heart of Northern California’s scenic Capay Valley and the region’s vibrant agrarian landscape.

Among gently rolling hills, acres of farmland and ranches, continuous rows of leafy orchards and elegant vineyards sits the stunning 459-key resort hotel within the charming Capay Valley region of Northern California. The Owner engaged the design team to create an upscale hotel experience to appeal to both devoted and newfound resort guests with abundant opportunity for regional discovery.

It was the idyllic beauty of the valley that inspired the interior design aesthetic and interior architecture composed from a designer concept called ‘Plentiful Valley/Fertile Ground’.

Capay Valley is host to abundant life in the forms of flora that change through the seasons to the animals and insects that animate and give the rolling hills life. Through the seasons, the landscape evolves – as seen throughout the hotel’s rich, refined pattern, texture and color palette and intricate structural geometry inspired by delicate almond blossoms, grassy hills, saturated wildflowers, olive groves and tomatoes and grapes as they ripen on the vine under the warm sun. This contextual design springs to life inside the new hotel lounges, dining venues, guestrooms and suites with a serene and elegant interpretation of the agrarian landscape and wide-open views to the picturesque valley.

As an ode to the honeybee and its importance to agriculture, four hexagonal columns and honeycomb patterned screens give intimacy to the energetic lobby lounge accented in maroon and honey golden tones. Above, a wildly geometric ceiling plane contrasts with a spiral golden light fixture to emulate the frenzied energy of the hive.

Highlighted by unique custom millwork entry doors, the steakhouse’s dramatic glass globe pendant light walls emulate the bounty of the valley’s wine country and cattle farms.

Set on the upper floors of the hotel, linear geometry and biophilic design collide along the two-story Presidential Suite’s floor, wall and ceiling planes, and the grand stair is the optimal vantage point to explore all the detail. The design experience relates beautifully to the region’s unique sense of place.