Pacific / Golf Courses / Resorts / Tropical
Kuki’o, Kona, Hawaii
Located along the North Kona Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii, the 700-acre Kukio Beach and Golf Club was envisioned and master planned to attract the most discriminating buyers. This tropical private enclave features an oceanfront 35,000 s.f. Beach Club and Spa, a hillside Golf Clubhouse, preserved shoreline ponds, archeological sites and parks, an 18-hole Tom Fazio designed golf course, 300 residences and an unusual 10-hole “fun” golf trail. A unique quality of the community plan is its pedestrian/golf cart trail network that allows homeowners to walk barefoot from their rear yard to the beach.
Don Vita, Principal-in-charge, master planning and landscape architecture for Hart Howerton;
Architect of Record – Design Partners Incorporated
Design Architect – Hart Howerton
Golf Clubhouse Architect – de Reus Architects
What Don Vita Did
- Master Planning
- Community Visioning
- Landscape Architecture
- Construction Administration
- Design Guidelines
- Way Finding
- Lot Portfolios / Lot Diagrams
Project Notes
- #6 Golf Digest, Best New Private 2005
- Top 10, America’s Best Golf Course Communities, Robb Report 2007
- #15 America’s Top 100 Golf Communities, Travel and Leisure Golf 2009
- #13 America’s Top 100 Golf Communities, Travel and Leisure Golf 2006
- #3 Golf Digest, Best in State 2007-08
- #2 Golf Link, Best in State 2005-06
- Great American Golf Communities, Golf.com 2008
- AIA Award of Excellence, Golf Clubhouse, 2008
- ASLA Merit Award, Hawaii Chapter, Kikaua Point Park, 2003
Note
Project completed while Don Vita was Principal at Hart Howerton/Robert Lamb Hart.
