Designed by the team at Avenue Interior Design, the recently opened Benson Hotel and Faculty Club is a hospitality center for the nationally recognized University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. It sits adjacent to the Fitzsimmons Innovation Community, the new business and residential district focused on medical and bioscience. The boutique hotel was designed to accommodate the needs of the hospitals and the University by offering luxury guestrooms, a full-service restaurant, spacious light-filled meeting facilities and an elegant ballroom and Rose Garden for large social functions. The 106 accommodations of the Benson Hotel and Faculty Club include a mix of guestrooms, suites and an entire floor of apartment-style suites with kitchens. At the center of many areas of the design is beautiful tile. Stone World recently caught up with Denise Pan, director of design & projects, and Bessie Shen, senior project designer, at the Los Angeles, CA-based firm Avenue Interior Design (AID) to learn more details about the hospitality project. 

SW: What was the design goal for the new Benson Hotel?