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An inn on an island near Newfoundland
captures the spirit of its people and place
By Caroline Tiger
Photography by
Alex Fradkin, Bent
René Synnevåg,
and Iwan Baan
Businesswoman Zita Cobb hired architect Todd Saunders to design the architecture, to capture and express what we have learned in our four
hundred years of living on this lovely, rugged rock in the North Atlantic.
Fogo Island Inn on Fogo Island, a remote outpost off the northeastern
Be faithful to the spirit and soul as well as the people of the place."
coast of Newfoundland, because, like her, he is from the area. "She told
me she knew right away it would be me, because I really get that quirky
Embracing the vernacular
bit of Canada," the architect says. "If you didn't grow up there, it's hard
With 29 guest rooms, ranging from 350 to 1,100 square feet, plus public
to understand." Cobb grew up on Fogo Island proper, and although
spaces including a main lobby, restaurant, art gallery, bar, lounge, and
Saunders has spent the last seventeen years in Norway-he moved
library on the ground floor, and a movie theater, conference rooms,
to Norway soon after college-he was born and raised in Gander,
and gym on the second floor, the complicated program intimidated
a town on the main Newfoundland island.
In 2003, Cobb established the Shorefast Foundation with money Saunders until he decided to approach the project like a large house.
"Once I had that in the back of my mind," he says, "it came out really
earned from a successful career running tech companies in Silicon
nicely, because the inn has all these domestic qualities to it."
Valley. The foundation's mission is to replace Fogo Island's decimated
Saunders situated the X-shaped building as close to the ocean as
cod fishing industry with "cultural and economic resilience" buoyed by
cultural production and geotourism. Before embarking on the inn, Cobb possible on a promontory jutting into the Atlantic. Steel stilts, appearing
to hold up the end nearest the water, are a nod to the fishing stages
engaged Saunders to design six self-sustaining, strikingly sculptural
studios around the island for the foundation's artist residency program. where generations of Fogo Islanders have cleaned, salted, and dried
She recalls her design brief for the inn: "Find a way, using contemporary their cod. The island vernacular also shows up in the locally sourced
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Editorial
Industry News
Columnist: Making Recruiting a Continual Firm Project
Product Focus: Inspired by Nature
Product Focus: Runway Ready
Product Briefs: Hospitality
Mandarin Oriental Guangzhou
Fogo Island Inn
Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles
TAO Downtown
nhow Rotterdam
Eclectic
IIDA Best of Asia Pacific Design Awards Winners
Designers Select: Hospitality
Sources
Ad Index
Perspectives
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