Turks and Caicos Islands | Dellis Cay | Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, and Zaha Hadid

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April 24, 2008

By Dianna Dilworth

The Turks and Caicos Islands, a British commonwealth of roughly 30 islands in the Caribbean, occupy a small piece of paradise. The isle of Dellis Cay, for instance, is a sanctuary for local sea birds that live there year-round and an important stopover for migratory birds that fly across its miles of sandy beaches. But the flamingos and herons are getting some human neighbors in a development dubbed The O Property Collection: pricey residences by a flock of big-name architects including Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, and Zaha Hadid. For many observers, the project raises troubling questions about sustainability.
Created by the Turkish businessman Cem Kinay, the development features 124 private villas, 154 residences, a Mandarin Oriental hotel, and a marina located on a 35-acre beachfront site. Residences will range from $2 million to $20 million and are aimed at those looking to purchase their third and fourth houses. The development broke ground in January and is slated for completion at the end of 2009.
For her residence, “Villa B,” Hadid has designed a geometric concrete roof that shelters a glass-walled house below it. Kuma is building canopies under luscious jungle trees to create spa villas with an inside/outside experience. Carl Ettensperger, Piero Lissoni, and Chad Oppenheim are also designing for the development. While all of the houses express the vision of their unique architects, each aims to incorporate the existing landscape.
“The original idea was to make a paradise without the buildings modifying the feeling of being in a paradise,” says Lissoni, who designed 24 hotel residences and nine beach houses for the Mandarin Oriental, as well as nine private villas. “The development was designed with a maximum respect for nature.”
But some observers take issue with this claim. Kinay purchased the previously uninhabited island from the Turks and Caicos government. In order to preserve a bird sanctuary, officials limited development to only 20 percent of the 560-acre isle. Still, any construction does have potential to create problems. “It can harm birds and make them vulnerable because, with people, there are also usually cats, mice, and rats—all of which wreak havoc on bird colonies,” says Greg Butcher, Audubon’s director of bird conservation. “The act of construction can also cause a disturbance to a wooded area where songbirds live. And new buildings can kill migrating birds, which fly into glass walls that are built in their paths.”
While none of the buildings are going for LEED accreditation, sustainable design features include photovoltaic arrays to produce electricity for the entire development; recycling the island’s limited fresh water sources; and using locally sourced wood, teak, and stones. Large overhangs for cooling, cross-ventilation, solar-heated water, an insulating green roof, and a rooftop pool that doubles as a rainwater collection tank will be a part of the resort’s master plan. In addition, air conditioning will be deployed minimally and the architects studied wind and sun patterns to determine the best orientation for cooling and heating buildings.
To lessen the impact of building on sand, which causes beach erosion, Oppenheim opted to raise his eight villas into the tree canopy. “Their elevated position allows for them to have little impact on the ground plane,” he explains. “The tree-top villas are precisely arranged on their parcels to maximize their [sustainable] and experiential qualities, channeling prevailing winds to cool the interior spaces as well as framing sunrises, sunsets, and the path of the moon on either side of the structure.”
Another green element is that no cars will be used on the island. Still, travel to the destination itself poses larger questions about sustainability. Aside from the carbon generating during construction, most houses will serve as only part-time residences for their owners—many of whom will be flying long distances to visit, generating more carbon than might be saved by using a few solar panels.
“We think that if a new development is going to be built, the greener the better. But on the other hand, you have to look at the total cost—which is there are environmental impacts to developing places that haven’t been developed before,” says Josh Dorner, a spokesperson for the Sierra Club. “It becomes a little tricky when people have this as a holiday home and they use quite a bit of carbon to visit it a few times a year.”
Lissoni responds, “The problem with pollution that comes from travel is a problem for all of society. We did the best that we could to keep the design for the island as natural as possible.”
Yet some project elements are less than environmentally sound. The marketing and press materials, for instance, spare no expense: the kit is wrapped like a gift in a box with a ribbon and arrives in a thick paper shopping bag. Included in the package is a booklet made out of a thick glossy cardboard and a series of thick glossy paper fact sheets, both non-recycled materials that could be difficult to recycle.
Even some of the architects are downplaying the sustainable qualities of their contributions. Ban, for instance, designed a beachfront village and an over-water villa for 15 different parcels. Dismissing the concept of sustainability as being “too fashionable,” he says that he approached the project more pragmatically. Given the scarcity of local construction workers, his beachfront house borrows from his earlier experimentation with modular, prefabricated containers. While the system gives homeowners the flexibility to move the boxes around, Ban sees a downside. “It is difficult to work on this kind of project in which I don’t see the particular client who will live in the house,” he says.

Fonte: Architectural Record

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Dellis Cay becomes global architectural masterpiece

By JASON SHEFTELL

DAILY NEWS REAL ESTATE CORRESPONDENT

Thursday, September 4th 2008, 8:09 PM

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Not yet for sale, the Chad Oppenheim villas are like lofts along the treeline.

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Buyer Ed Razek (l.) and Dr. Cem Kinay on Dellis Cay

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In perhaps the boldest single architectural undertaking in the last 50 years, a Turkish doctor is turning a private island into a series of the most interesting-designed beach houses known to man. Off the coast of Turks and Caicos, in sight of Donna Karan's Caribbean compound, Dellis Cay one day may be as much a sight to see as Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

I am not exaggerating. People may fly small planes to see it from above. Boats will hover by its shore to catch glimpses of the straight-lined and two-story structures mingling with the lush landscape. Designed by seven of the world's top architects, Dellis Cay may catapult Turks and Caicos past St. Bart's as the New York City luxury set's top local playground.

The Visionary: Searching the globe for the right plot of island land, Dr. Cem Kinay acquired Dellis Cay for a reported $50 million from an Italian businesswoman married to an ex-prime minister. There wasn't even a home on the island. Even before the purchase, though, Kinay knew what he wanted to do: Assemble a dream team of the world's top architects and give them each a plot of land to build 10 to 15 villas each, a hotel and a Zen-like spa.

After selling the successful European all-inclusive hotel chain Magic Life with his founding partner, Oguz Serim, Kinay's O Property Collection's goal was to change the way we live. Dellis Cay is the company's first project in the Western Hemisphere.

Humble, soft-spoken and focused, Kinay, 50, utters powerful sentences in a quiet, steady flow. He drinks cappuccinos by the dozens and has been known to put in 20-hour workdays. His design director, Sandra Nassima, doesn't believe he sleeps.

"Dellis Cay will be a revolution for how people are living," says Kinay, 50, who admits making business decisions with emotion and his gut. "We live such busy lives with so much in our heads, we need places like Dellis Cay to give us back our health. I want to make a new art of the living experience. Design must be a part of it."

The Architects: Designer Piero Lissoni is an Italian treasure. When Kinay met him, he told him, as he did all his architects, his vision of an island with the most extraordinarily designed homes, where children could play safely and people would go back and forth from their private residences to a common public sphere, maybe a hotel.

"I said to myself, this guy is crazy," recalls Lissoni, who designed Dellis Cay's Mandarin Oriental hotel, set to open in 2010. "But I looked in his eyes and I thought he could do it. It's the kind of crazy I like, like me."

Lissoni, who also designed the island's first round of ocean and beach villas, said he understood Kinay's main goal: to let the architecture co-habitate with the natural environment of the island.

"When I first saw this island I said to myself, 'Oh my God, why do we have to touch this?' " says Lissoni. "I didn't want to kill the island. So I took my ego away, and that is not easy, and I made something where nature lives inside and outside."

Almost completely sold at prices ranging from $2 million to $10 million, the Lissoni collection of homes will be fully furnished by items created and selected by Lissoni, one of the world's top furniture designers. Each architect, in fact, will provide furnishings for their villas. All owners do is show up and pick up a key.

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who designed the Metal Shutter House on W. 19th St., is in the midst of designing the second realm of beach homes, on sale now. Fifteen villas or modern beach shacks, some shaped as S's and others as H's, are placed in serpentine form along the beach like reptiles. Each has a long boat dock with a geometric glass box serving as an additional bedroom. Owners will be one with the water.

"The colors and the nature on the island are obviously remarkable and were fundamental to the conception process," says Ban. "In this specific case, my design considerations were largely focused on creating projects with a strong basis of prefabrication, as we needed to build strong and beautiful structures in a remote place with difficult and unusual building conditions."

The Buyers: Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, friends of Kinay, have bought a Lissoni oceanfront villa. So have a British tech mogul, Russian entrepreneurs and an Italian businessman.

New Yorker Ed Razek, president and chief marketing officer of Victoria's Secret and Henri Bendel parent company, Limited Brands, was the first buyer to inquire about a property. A true appreciator of design's role in modern life, Razek recognized Zaha Hadid, the eccentric Pritzker Prize-winning architect who is the island's master planner, in a Miami bar.

"Zaha is a famous person to a small portion of the world," says Razek, who owns homes in Aspen, Colo.; Columbus, Ohio; New York, and Miami. "She told me about a private island. The next day, I called Dr. Kinay. I wanted to meet the guy who's planning this."

"No one has ever even attempted anything like this before," says Razek. "To put together the world's greatest architectural minds on an island of 560 acres and build a small amount of houses? The dream is one thing, but the execution is another. I believe we're making history here."

The Staff: When you consider that there was nothing on the island except sand, brush and mangroves, the execution of this luxury architectural paradise makes schemes for New York's Hudson Yards look simple.

Kinay has a team of three who oversee just logistics. The doctor himself handled the negotiations with the Turks and Caicos premiere, Michael Misick, 41, who is caught up in a fraud investigation and in the midst of a messy divorce from celebrity LisaRaye McCoy. Kinay will build a high school on a land mass near Dellis Cay.

With two half-moon crescent bays and an interior of Caribbean jungle, the island is a natural masterpiece. Sebastian Steinau, a young German heading up client services at the Turks and Caicos sales center, beamed as he drove me around the island in a golf cart.

"It's exciting, because every time I visit the island now, something has changed and building has progressed," says Steinau. "It becomes very personal. The buyers, the team, we have become friends."

We pass a temporary construction village, home to 200 Turkish and local workers building the island's plumbing and electrical infrastructure as well as the villas. A barge is parked in a channel where residents one day will arrive on the island. A tree farm grows vegetation for landscaping.

"We're growing our own trees," says Steinau, who took me to the island's highest point for an aerial view. "It's better for the environment."

Off the island, design director Nassima, also from Turkey, unwinds after the groundbreaking. She handles all interaction with the architects, working to perfect exterior and interior design and keep delicate egos in check.

"I am a believer in good design as a religion," says Nassima, who found the doctor by calling him after she heard about his industrious plan. "I will fight to keep the island an architectural masterpiece. The doctor is totally self-made. Who does something so ambitious after building a company like Magic Life?"

Kinay smiles at such compliments. He lives to challenge himself.

"I am not a traditional boss," he says. "I am part of the team as much as anybody else. Everyone who works on this project will hopefully get joy when they see children playing on the beach with their families in front of such good design. That will make me happy."

For more information, go to www.delliscay.com.

Razek believes Dellis Cay is far ahead of its time, invoking an emotional connection to home that other developments lack. On the island for the groundbreaking in June, Razek and his neighbors walked the oceanfront site of their not-yet-built homes. They sat on the beach to watch the sun set. One of the owners became teary-eyed.

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The AJ visits the Turks and Caicos Islands

Published: 07 July 2008 13:52 Author: James Pallister More by this Author Last Updated: 07 July 2008 14:33 Reader Responses

As British Overseas Territory the Turks & Caicos Islands comes under scrutiny from MPs over allegations of 'corruption and a climate of fear', James Pallister reports back from one of the Caribbean island group's key tourist developments, unconnected to the allegations, which features a stellar cast of architects including David Chipperfield and Zaha Hadid.

'People call our sales office, and without having seen the plot or design, they'll say: "I'll take a Chipperfield", or "I'll take a Zaha Hadid". Design coordinator Sandra Nassima is referring to the luxury villas which her employer, Turkish property entrepreneur Dr Cem Kinay, has just started building.

Nassima is speaking from a white sandy beach in the middle of the Caribbean approximately 914km from Miami. More specifically, she is on Dellis Cay, one of the islands that makes up the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British territory now at the centre of corruption allegations.

Author: James Pallister.

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Dellis Cay Anuncia a Obtenção de Financiamento para Construção de Curto e de Longo Prazos Junto a Trinidad & Tobago Unit Trust Corporation

PROVIDENCIALES, Ilhas Turks e Caicos--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A Turks Ltd,que desenvolveu o Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay, tem o prazer de anunciar a execução e conclusão de um acordo de empréstimo com a Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corporation. A TT UTC entregou US$ 62 milhões em dinheiro à Dellis Cay. Além disso, este mês também celebra o terceiro mês do início da construção em Dellis Cay.

O Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay é um dos projetos de desenvolvimento mais bem sucedidos do Caribe. O projeto está sendo conduzido pelo empresário Dr. Cem Kinay da O Property Collection, que vinha considerando a possibilidade de trabalhar com uma instituição financeira de grande reputação para o atendimento das necessidades de longo prazo de Dellis Cay.

“Estamos muito satisfeitos em fazer esse anúncio hoje", disse o Dr. Cem Kinay, Diretor Executivo e Presidente da OPC, “e gostaríamos de agradecer à TT UTC pela confiança em nós depositada, em nossa admirável equipe e em nosso projeto exclusivo nas Ilhas Turks e Caicos. Também gostaria de estender nossos agradecimentos a Emre Oral e a Oguz Serim, meu sócio na OPC, por liderarem, em todos os níveis, o processo de negociação e a conclusão deste importante marco para nossa empresa.”

Marlon Holder, Diretor Executivo da Trinidad & Tobago Unit Trust Corporation escreveu, “Estamos felizes em trabalhar com o Dr. Cem Kinay no desenvolvimento deste significativo marco, o Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay, nas Ilhas Turks e Caicos. Também gostaria de estender meus agradecimentos à nossa equipe de Negociação Bancária, liderada pela Sra. Kelly Belmontes e assistida pela Sra. Sophia Sant, por desenvolver uma solução adequada para o cliente. Com o presente sucesso do Dr. Kinay no desenvolvimento das vendas, no progresso da construção e agora com o empréstimo da NES, acreditamos que ele e sua equipe alcançarão as condições ideais para completar o projeto dentro do prazo e do orçamento previstos.

A Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corporation, uma empresa de serviços financeiros diversificados, foi fundada em 1981 e está sediada em Porto de Espanha, Trinidad e Tobago, com subsidiárias em Belize, Ilhas Cayman, Trinidad e Tobago e nos Estados Unidos da América. A UTC provê soluções financeiras para grande número de investidores regionais e internacionais e é a empresa líder em fundos mútuos no Caribe. Além dos serviços de fundos mútuos, a UTC também provê soluções financeiras por meios de suas áreas de Negociaçào Bancária, Tesouro e serviços Fiduciários.

O Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay, nas Ilhas Turks e Caicos está sendo desenvolvido pela O Property Collection (OPC), um grupo que desenvolve luxuosos real estate criado em 2005 pelo Dr. Cem Kinay e por Oguz Serim. Este grupo busca estabelecer um nível de design e de serviços de excelência sem precedentes em uma grande variedade de áreas geográficas. Arquitetos mundialmente renomados contratados para Dellis Cay são: Zaha Hadid (Londres); David Chipperfield (Londres); Kengo Kuma (Tóquio); Shigeru Ban (Paris/Tóquio); Piero Lissoni (Milão); Carl Ettensperger (Singapura) and Chad Oppenheim (EUA). Arquitetura e design impecáveis juntamente com o lendário serviço do Mandarin Oriental tornam Dellis Cay um dos destinos mais exclusivos do mundo.

O Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group é o premiado proprietário e operador de alguns dos hotéis e resorts de maior prestígio mundial. Atualmente o Mandarin Oriental opera, ou está desenvolvendo, 40 hotéis, o que representa mais de 10.000 quartos em 24 países, sendo 16 hotéis na Ásia, 14 nas Américas e 10 na Europa e no Norte da África.

Dellis Cay é uma ilha privada de 560 acres nas Ilhas Turks e Caicos que ficam localizadas a 575 milhas ao sul de Miami, Flórida, e compreendem oito ilhas maiores e numerosas pequenas ilhas desabitadas e protegidas. A ilha exclusiva propiciará uma das experiências de vida mais intensamente prazerosas sobre a terra e oportunidades sem paralelo de aquisição de residências excepcionais.

Fotografias de Dellis Cay estão disponíveis em www.delliscay.com

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As praias e águas cristalinas desta ilha privada e os seus actuais habitantes alados vão ter vizinhos humanos.

Recentemente adquirida por Cem Kinay, presidente e CEO do prestigiado grupo The O Property Collection, Dellis Cay vai ser transformado num idílico destino turístico de luxo.
Para a realização deste magnifico resort, com abertura prevista para 2009, foi escolhido um grupo composto pelos mais famosos arquitectos e designers do mundo. Construirão 124 villas, 154 residências e um Spa, um hotel, uma marina e restaurantes.

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http://www.opropertycollection.com/

http://www.delliscay.com/

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We wrote before about Piero Lissoni’s designs for Dellis Cay. Ground has now been broken on this project on a private island in the Turks and Caicos. New designs have been unveiled by Shigeru Ban, David Chipperfield, Carl Ettensperger, Zaha Hadid, Kengo Kuma, and Chad Oppenheim.
Starchitects at Dellis Cay


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