Press & Accolades
September 2, 2008
To this end, Gatecrasher has spent £5million and hired famed American club designer Cal Fortis, the man behind the Crobar venues in New York and Miami, to transform The Works
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September 1, 2008
Gatecrasher have enlisted the expertise of designers Big Time Design, headed up by a legendary nightclub designer Callin Fortis, to create the ultimate Miami style club experience, devised in Ibiza,
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August 15, 2008
100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN NIGHTLIFE As the duo behind international clubhouse Crobar, Ken Smith and Cal Fortis are a power team. Fortis creates the ambiance and Smith keeps
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April 10, 2008
WORLD'S TOP NIGHTCLUB DESIGNERS: BIGTIME DESIGN Designer, nightlife impresario and Bigtime co-founder Callin Fortis primarily known for the nightclub design and branding of the international and award-winning brand of
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January 1, 2008
CROBAR IMPRESARIO RETURNS Designer, nightlife impresario and Big Time founder Callin Fortis – primarily known for designing and branding the international and award-winning brand of Crobar night-clubs – is
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October 10, 2007
COVER STORY: 6TH ANNUAL CLUB WORLD AWARDS Big Time Design wins the Best Nightclub Renovation and gets nominated for Best Nightclub Interior Design for their work on Cameo
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September 1, 2007
COVER STORY: NIGHTLIFE'S 30 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE The iPod of nightlife might not be the perfect analogy, but it certainly matches the type of brand recognition crobar enjoys. The
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July 2, 2007
COVER STORY: CAMEO - MIAMI'S HOTTEST NEW CLUB Cameo is the brainchild of Callin Fortis, club owner and designer (Big Time Design), and, with his business partner, Ken Smith,
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July 1, 2007
CLUB DESIGNERS With Cameo, Chicago kingpin Callin Fortis undid his crobar creation and remade it in the likeness of the Palladium of the past. Picture Wright retrofitting the insides
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June 1, 2007
CAMEO, MIAMI The start of 2007 saw a new venue, Cameo, join the competitive Miami club scene. A replacement for the popular Crobar club, it is a collaboration between
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April 15, 2007
“It’s going to happen,” says designer Cal Fortis, who is sitting in a small office in the Cameo Theatre, chain-smoking Marlboro Light 100s, talking about his attempt to remake his
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March 5, 2006
HEAVY When asked what his favorite aspect of his job is, Crobar brand Co-owner and Co-creator Ken Smith says nothing of mingling with celebrities, rubbing elbows with the greatest
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April 1, 2004
THE CLUBS THAT CALLIN BUILT There is sociology to good nightclub design. How people move through space while they are dancing is critical. Because New York is one of
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March 5, 2004
CLUB DESIGNERS Callin Fortis and Lionel Ohayan, December 2003 crobar is one of a crop of new superclubs that have been unleashed on New Yorkers over the past couple
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February 10, 2004
Perched on the edge of Lake Michigan, America’s third largest city has long been famous for its modern raucous character and tumultuous history. Chicago’s hippest and most fashionable restaurants, bars
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