10 Questions With… Verena Haller, Chief Design Officer for Standard Hotels
May 6, 2021
By Mairi Beautyman
“Designers and architects who approach projects in an unconventional way, are not afraid to do so, and don’t take themselves too seriously are the ones that really inspire me,” reveals Verena Haller. A Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Equinox Hotel alum who worked with hospitality guru Ian Schrager, Haller got her start in Europe before becoming chief design officer of Standard International, the company behind The Standard Hotels.
In 2019, after the brand landed an exclusive 194,000-square-foot island nestled between the Raa and Baa Atolls, Haller oversaw the opening of Standard International’s first island escape. A tropical retreat capturing the breathtaking natural beauty of the island nation’s turquoise waters and white sand beaches, The Standard, Huruvalhi Maldives consists of six food and beverage options and 115 overwater and beach villas, the result of a
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Construction starts on Design District apartment tower
The high-rise is the tallest started in Dallas since the start of the pandemic.
The 27-story tower that has started construction is one of three planned for the site near Stemmons Freeway.(Urby )
Developers have broken ground on the first of three planned high-rises in Dallas’ Design District.
New Jersey-based Urby is building the 27-story residential tower on Hi Line Drive just west of Stemmons Freeway. The building will have 383 luxury rental units when it opens in two years.
Urby bought the 4-acre site northwest of downtown Dallas in 2019 and has been working to design and kick off construction. It’s the developer’s first project in Dallas and its first outside the New York metropolitan area.
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1 A performer inside The Box, a long-running living tableau at The Standard. “It was always populated with interesting people. Robert Sherman, the famous Mapplethorpe model, was in The Box every Saturday night,” says Bryan Rabin. 2 The hotel opened with investors who included Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz. 3 A Pride pool party hosted by Patrick Starr in 2019. 4 Rabin.
Event and film producer Bryan Rabin, creator of the spot s celeb-packed Giorgio’s nightclub, remembers the Sunset Strip institution, which shuttered Jan. 22.
To a young generation, The Standard which closed on Jan. 22, 2021 was where they all came of age in Hollywood. They spent all their 20s at the pool and then they spent their 30s or 40s at Giorgio s. They grew up with that hotel.