[row][span10]Recognize some names from (design) reality TV on our speaker lineup? The panelists from B. Garcia Designs and Danny Forster & Architecture are indeed Blanche Garcia, the principal designer featured in five seasons of the Travel Channel’s Hotel Impossible series, and architect Danny Forster, the Emmy-award-winning director/producer who hosted and produced the Discovery Channel series Build It Bigger, among other television projects.[/span10][/row]
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Blanche Garcia
Danny Forster
[row][span10]Garcia, whose design for the TRYP by Wyndham hotel within a historic art deco building in Newark, New Jersey, was featured in Boutique Design, joins turnaround experts from Floss Barber, J. Banks Design, P3 Design Collective and Parker-Torres Design for “Revolutionary Renovation: Detailed Solutions for the Toughest Design Challenges” on Monday, Nov. 12. They’ll share strategies for breathing new life into tired properties and underperforming interiors—and detail tips for dealing with the surprises inherent in reno projects.[/span10]
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[row][span10]Forster’s design for the upcoming AC by Marriott NoMad in lower Manhattan, featured in the October issue of BD, is the subject of the Sunday, Nov. 11 session, “Tower of Power: Look Inside the World’s Tallest Modular Hotel.” He and fellow panelists from Concord Hospitality, Marriott Intl. and Skystone Group will discuss in depth the construction techniques and modular methodology that are growing in popularity among hospitality project owners—not just for low-rise, wood frame hotels, but for high-rise steel structures as well.[/span10]
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