Four Seasons Resort Lana’i The Lodge at Koele

Lanai, HI | 2 stories / 100 rooms | 150,000 sq ft

Nestled among the “Cook Pines” outside Lanai City on the island of Lanai, Hawaii, the 100-room five-star Lodge at Koele is the island’s first project to attempt to develop a tourist industry on an island that only supported agricultural activities in the past. Challenges facing the design/construction team were numerous as access to the island for construction materials was by barge landing at a dock shared with the export of pineapples which was closed 20 percent of the year due to high seas. At 150,000 square feet, this hotel is one of the largest all-timber framed structures in Hawaii.