PGA Tour event showcases Summit Club mansions

The Summit Club, the edifice play assemblage successful Summerlin, got planetary attraction past play erstwhile it hosted a PGA Tour lawsuit — the CJ Cup — broadcast astir the world.

The tv sum depicted the Spring Mountains of Red Rock Canyon, godforsaken scenery and elevated areas wherever homes are perched supra the title people designed by famed designer Tom Fazio.

It’s a uncommon peek into the exclusive and backstage assemblage of Discovery Land Co. that caters to the ultra luxury successful athletics, amusement and business. Knights proprietor Bill Foley and Raiders proprietor Mark Davis are among those who telephone it home. Celine Dion has a location there.

Lots person sold for respective cardinal dollars, and homes person been built that are successful excess of $20 million.

It’s fitting that the aforesaid play The Summit Club was recognized by the Las Vegas homebuilder and plan assemblage for immoderate of the archetypal homes completed successful the 555-acre development.

Forte Specialty Contractors and designer Daniel Joseph Chenin were recognized by the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association with a Silver Nugget Award for the class of Outdoor Living Space for a location called The Fort astatine the Summit situated supra the play course. It was besides a finalist for Design &Architecture successful the class wherever the Custom Home of the Year was selected. The Fort astatine the Summit besides was a finalist for Best Custom Home Kitchen and Best Custom Home Primary Bathroom.

Another Summit customized location from Merlin Custom Home Builders won a Silver Nugget for Best Primary Bathroom and Best Kitchen and was a finalist for its outdoor surviving abstraction and plan and architecture.

Full sum of the Oct. 15 awards ceremonial volition beryllium included successful a peculiar conception to beryllium published Nov. 7 successful the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

“We’re precise arrogant of the work,” said Travis West, vice president of commercialized improvement astatine Forte Speciality Contractors and elder task manager of the Fort project. “It was a challenging project, and it’s ever a small bittersweet erstwhile the task is implicit erstwhile it’s arsenic beauteous arsenic that one.”

The one-story location sits connected 1 acre and measures 9,728 quadrate feet with 7,300 of surviving space. It’s 1 story, but the mode it “reads connected the tract due to the fact that of the topography it feels similar it’s 2 stories due to the fact that it crawls up a hill,” West said. It has 5 bedrooms and a three-car garage.

“It is rustic contemporary,” West said. “The exterior has a dry-stacked stone. It has a timeless and beauteous design, and it melds good with the surrounding landscape. It looks similar it belongs there. That’s hard to achieve, particularly successful this scenery and inactive support a modern consciousness and look. Normally, modern and modern is simply a small spot abrasive, and this couldn’t beryllium further from it.”

Forte built the location astir ample boulders that it shipped onto the spot for the courtyards, some outer and internal.

“Right aft I poured the slab, I brought boulders successful due to the fact that determination was nary different mode to physique truthful we had to physique astir them,” West said. “The boulders meld with the landscape, and it looks similar the location and the rocks had ever been there. It’s uncommon to spot masses that ample successful caller construction. It’s by acold the astir costly escaped boulder I person ever received.”

West said helium had to physique a roadworthy and bring successful peculiar cranes and trailers to get the boulders to the site. They brought successful astir 10 ample boulders with the 2 main ones successful the outer courtyard — 1 was astir 75 tons oregon 140,000 pounds and the different was 50 tons oregon 100,000 pounds, West said. With the boulders, they utilized much than 14 autochthonal godforsaken taxon for landscaping.

“I usually bash commercialized work, but erstwhile I saw the designer drafting this, it became a passionateness task for me,” West said. “I bugged him each the clip that I felt compelled that I wanted to physique this project. It’s unsocial and one-of-a-kind due to the fact that of the materiality, plan and thoughtfulness. It’s similar having quality beryllium nonstop due to the fact that the lines successful this location are truthful important and they work throughout. You messiness up a precise dimension, it’s going to echo done the full house. There’s nary mode you tin cheat it due to the fact that determination are nary breaks.”

West said it was a challenging plan due to the fact that of however it was drawn and its details. The measurements connected the drawings were truthful precise due to the fact that the “symmetry was truly important successful this peculiar home. If you were disconnected by much than 1/16th you were going to spot wherever that enactment yet meets up. Everything from slab grout lines to millwork surrounds to thresholds, they each enactment up. Daniel Joseph Chenin draws precise precisely. Every item matters.”

The sanction Fort astatine the Summit is derived from its plan with 2 main towering walls that abstracted the location and tally done the house.

“It’s the architect’s mentation of what a modern fort would look similar successful an outpost successful the desert,” West said.

Chenin said the conception of the location was to relation arsenic a basal campy for household gatherings and outdoor pursuits with their progressive lifestyle. The clients were acrophobic astir the biology interaction and wanted a plan that was environmentally conscious. The wide plan limits its biology interaction done plan strategies specified arsenic passive cooling, time lighting, thermal mass, stone roofs, indigenous drought resistant landscaping and locally/regionally-sourced no-maintenance materials, Chenin said.

The strategies offset the home’s c footprint, reducing its dependence connected the grid, each portion providing bully stewardship for the land, Chenin said. The walls were much than 1 ft heavy with the stone and insulation, and during construction, it was noted the extracurricular aerial somesthesia versus wrong successful summertime was 20 to 30 degrees cooler, helium added.

“We designed a location that won an American Institute of Architects Design Award for Nevada for its plan and sustainability principles,” Chenin said. “Essentially, the location has a multitude of windows with antithetic gardens and vantage points that could unfastened and adjacent and let the occupants to alteration retired the aerial and vigor it and re-cool it passively without a mechanical system. The surviving country opens up to the backyard and to the interior to let the interior of the location to go an outdoor situation that’s covered by the roof.”

The location is “organized successful a bid of masses that work arsenic they’re emerging from the world with rocks that are stacked,” Chenin said. It’s organized from a cardinal nucleus that arsenic you grow and spell outward of that household nucleus, it becomes much private. And each of the rooms look the earthy situation and absorption connected views of the surrounding mountains.

“Those unobstructed views of Red Rock from antithetic rooms instrumentality connected antithetic views of the landscape,” Chenin said. “Every azygous space, whether it was wrong oregon out, was cautiously sited to instrumentality vantage of the views.”

The wrong of the location has a hospitality consciousness that West said feels similar a luxury resort, which fits Chenin’s inheritance successful high-end hospitality. There are upholstered walls, en suites and closet spaces connected to bathrooms.

“It feels similar you are successful a hotel,” West said. As for the kitchen, West described it arsenic “looking similar candy” and “dripping successful this beauteous onyx” connected the walls and wherever “you spot these veins rippling done the full kitchen.”

It’s cased by 13-foot, floor-to-ceiling millwork paneling cabinetry.

“It’s gorgeous,” West said. “It’s similar a jewel. When you travel in, it looks similar a precious stone.”

West called the large country spectacular with its 40-foot agelong corridor that is 13 feet gangly with collapsible sliding doors.

It opens to the main courtyard and backyard implicit the swimming pool, which is positioned successful specified a mode the prevailing winds stroke crossed it and provides a cooling ambiance successful the location and into the exterior courtyard.

“You genuinely consciousness similar you’re outside,” West said. “It’s awesome.”

To entree the home, you person to locomotion done a operation that has a conical diagnostic connected apical and fountain h2o diagnostic beneath — a coagulated portion of granite that is chiseled, West said.

“The main courtyard presents itself, and you spot this ample boulder arsenic you’re walking past and perceive the dripping of the fountain and you look up astatine the conical successful the sky, and it creates a cave-like dependable to it. There’s a hidden staircase successful determination that you walk a tiny barroom and spell to the top, and it’s a beauteous observatory to look astatine the desert. There’s a banquette (built-in seating) up there. Surrounding the conical and the spread successful the ceiling is simply a occurrence pit. I tin ideate sitting up determination with a bully cocktail successful the fall. The presumption of Red Rock and the surrounding godforsaken makes you consciousness similar you’re retired successful the mediate of nowhere.”

The maestro bathroom, which was a finalist for a Silver Nugget Award, has its ain outdoor courtyard and ablution and portal windows to presumption Red Rock arsenic you shower, West said.

These won’t beryllium the past Summit homes to triumph Silver Nugget Awards, West said. The clientele for these luxury homes moving into the Summit is pushing the envelope for designs. It took courageousness from the Fort’s unnamed proprietor to physique specified a home, helium said.

“They bring a level of affluence that they tin plan much challenging structures,” West said. “You are lone constricted to your budget. You’re astir apt going to spot a batch much challenging designs coming retired of Summit.”