Media
Press Archive
What the trade press has written about LW’s work — Sleeper, identity, Commercial Interior Design, Supper, Abode2, CEO Middle East, IFDM and Hospitality Interiors. Each feature below is summarised on its own page, with the printed article to download alongside it.
17 features
In Print
IFDM Wonder
Winter 2025
IFDM Wonder: Nature as an Operational Imperative
Pooja Shah-Mulani in IFDM’s Winter 2025 Wonder Book on reading place and ecology first — with the Ritz-Carlton Masai Mara and Bab Al Shams as the method.
On Ritz-Carlton Masai Mara Safari Camp · Bab Al Shams
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Sleeper
November 2024
25 Years of LW Design — the Sleeper Interview
Sleeper interviews Jesper Godsk on 25 years of LW Design: the 1999 Scandinavian premise, Buddha Bar and The Dubai EDITION, and the next generation.
On The Dubai EDITION · Bab Al Shams · SIRO · Buddha Bar
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Supper
2023
Row on 45: Jason Atherton’s 22-Cover Room
Supper on Row on 45, Grosvenor House Dubai: a 22-cover, 17-course room by LW Design for Jason Atherton, staged in three acts across three enclaves.
On Row on 45
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CEO Middle East · Legacy Edition
July 2023
CEO Middle East Cover Story: A Legacy of Vision
CEO Middle East’s Legacy Edition cover story on Jesper Godsk: a 1976 origin, LW Architecture in 2003, and a leadership handover eight years in the making.
On Bab Al Shams · The Dubai EDITION · Waldorf Astoria · Raffles, Shenzhen · Bushra by Buddha Bar · Chic Nonna · City Social · Blind Tiger
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Sleeper · Issue 109
2023
Sleeper 109: Bab Al Shams Reviewed
Sleeper 109 reviews Bab Al Shams: a 56,000 m² desert resort closed for nine months and reopened in 2023 as the first of Kerzner’s Rare Finds.
On Bab Al Shams
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Hospitality Interiors · Issue 106
March–April 2023
Bab Al Shams, A Rare Finds Desert Resort
Hospitality Interiors 106 on Bab Al Shams: the brief, the Lost Princess narrative, and the makers — Square M landscaping and Capsule Arts curation.
On Bab Al Shams
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Commercial Interior Design · Young Designer of the Year 2021
2022
Young Designer of the Year: Jacqueline Tan Co
Jacqueline Tan Co of LW’s Hong Kong studio on the cover of Commercial Interior Design as Young Designer of the Year 2021.
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Sleeper · Issue 100
January 2022
Sleeper 100: The Dubai EDITION
Sleeper issue 100 on The Dubai EDITION: 275 rooms, a 15m arched lobby and four F&B venues, architecture and interiors by LW Design Group.
On The Dubai EDITION
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identity · Issue 215
December 2021
identity 215: A Serene Escape
identity issue 215 on The Dubai EDITION — a podium rotated 45°, an Onion Lab ceiling artwork mapped by projector, and 275 rooms in oak and stone.
On The Dubai EDITION
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Commercial Interior Design
March 2020
Tales of Design from Mexico: Mr. Taco
Commercial Interior Design, March 2020, on Mr. Taco: a small, deliberately loud room by Rachel Kidd and Jacqueline Craft at LW Design.
On Mr Taco
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identity · Issue 191
October 2019
Sense of Accomplishment: A Jumeirah Villa
identity issue 191 on a 2,400 m² LW villa in Jumeirah, Dubai — a courtyard as the organising element, and Jesper Godsk on buildings people thrive in.
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Commercial Interior Design
April 2019
An Urban Oasis: Zabeel House by Jumeirah, The Greens
Commercial Interior Design, April 2019, on Zabeel House by Jumeirah, The Greens — reclaimed red brick bar counters and interactive guest artwork by LW.
On Zabeel House
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Supper · Issue 11
2018
Brasserie du Park, Park Hyatt Dubai
Supper on Brasserie du Park at Park Hyatt Dubai: 125 covers inside and 92 out, a Deauville-inspired brasserie with the interior scheme managed by LW.
On Brasserie du Park · Noepe · Seventy Seventy
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Abode2 · Volume 2, Issue 21
2018
Tall Story: Colin Doyle on Dubai City Walk
Abode2 on City Walk, Dubai: Colin Doyle on a low-rise district capped at six floors, its three courtyard types, and LW’s masterplan and public realm.
On City Walk
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Commercial Interior Design
June 2017
Keeping in with the Media Crowd: Media One Hotel
Commercial Interior Design, June 2017, on LW’s ground-floor refurbishment of Media One Hotel, Dubai Media City — 78 monkey lights and the QWERTY bar.
On Media One Hotel
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The Leading Emirates Trade Magazine
2017
Touching People’s Lives: Steigenberger Business Bay
A 2017 trade profile of LW Design: the Steigenberger Hotel Business Bay in ostrich leather and illuminated onyx, with a 20-metre ballroom chandelier.
On Steigenberger Business Bay Hotel · Media One Hotel
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Commercial Interior Design
February 2017
Achieving Nirvana: Buddha-Bar Dubai Refurbished
Commercial Interior Design, February 2017, on LW’s refurbishment of Buddha-Bar Dubai — dragon-scale tiles, Steve Chambers murals, a new mezzanine bar.
On Buddha Bar
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What this archive is
Third-party trade editorial about LW’s work, not LW’s own magazine. Sleeper, identity, Commercial Interior Design, Supper, Abode2, CEO Middle East, IFDM and Architectural Digest, plus one LW practice brochure. That distinction is the point: a journalist describing the fifteen iterations of the arch at The Dubai EDITION, or counting the 78 monkey lights at Media One, carries weight that the same sentence in a brochure does not.
Each published page is a summary written from the source, the facts the piece establishes, and short extracts with the publication, issue, date and writer named. None reproduces the article: the copyright belongs to the publisher. Full republication is a permission question for LW to take up with each title.
Recovered, downloadable, no page — and why
Three documents are in hand and served as downloads but were deliberately not given pages. The live site has 59 flipbook URLs that serve identical content; the rule here is one page per document with unique content, or no page.
The rest of the archive
24 documents across 118 pages were image-only scans and are now searchable: OCR recovered 19,830 words from them, and the searchable PDFs sit beside the originals. What they have not had is an editorial pass — nobody has read the output against the page images, and OCR of magazine layouts drops pull-quotes and mangles small caps, so none of this text is quotable yet. 5 further documents carry some text but under 80 words a page. No document in the archive is unreadable any more.
| Document | Status | Pages | MB | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| idesign.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 12 | 3.2 | 2,807 |
| CID-Feature.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 12 | 1.7 | 2,905 |
| gg-feature-raffles.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 11 | 5.5 | 717 |
| emp.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 8 | 2.7 | 1,726 |
| BAS-HD.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 8 | 2 | 831 |
| Identity-Front-Cover-25-Year-Anniversary.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 7 | 1.5 | 1,155 |
| 7-Tales-Front-Cover.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 6 | 0.7 | 600 |
| Luxury-Hospitality-NEW.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 5 | 2.1 | 1,475 |
| Bab-Al-Shams-Identity.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 5 | 0.7 | 719 |
| emh_177_42-45_hotel1-1.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 4 | 0.4 | 509 |
| 9241941.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 4 | 0.4 | 509 |
| Blind-Tiger-Magazine-Feature.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 4 | 0.8 | 441 |
| africanarabia.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 3 | 0.5 | 361 |
| Temporary-Printing-Window.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 3 | 0.2 | 554 |
| Design-Middle-East-Creative-30.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 3 | 0.8 | 624 |
| ID-50-Jesper-Godsk-NEW-Latest.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 3 | 0.3 | 786 |
| ID-50-Jesper-Godsk-NEW.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 3 | 0.7 | 682 |
| Wave-of-the-Future-2022.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 3 | 0.7 | 0 |
| CID-Power-Panels.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 3 | 0.7 | 897 |
| Power-50.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 3 | 0.4 | 291 |
| curve.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 2 | 0.5 | 321 |
| CID-Bulld-Bear-NEW-1.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 2 | 0.2 | 293 |
| Pias-Returement-CID-NEW.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 2 | 0.3 | 356 |
| CID-Power-List.pdf | OCR’d — awaiting an editorial pass | 2 | 0.3 | 271 |
| press-clippings-lw-2019.pdf | Part text, mostly images | 206 | 34.1 | 1,389 |
| lw-design-april.pdf | Part text, mostly images | 11 | 4.8 | 1 |
| gg-magazine1.pdf | Part text, mostly images | 10 | 2.8 | 556 |
| power-list.pdf | Part text, mostly images | 5 | 2.1 | 64 |
| power-list.pdf | Part text, mostly images | 5 | 2.1 | 64 |