CONCEPTS, REFITS & CONVERSIONS

As yacht architects, Liebowitz & Partners base our creative solutions on the client’s Brief. With that information, we interject four elements: function, beauty, safety, and practical build-ability. Our experience in the real world – extensive sea time, observation of crewing efforts, understanding maintenance issues – inform and help shape LP’s diverse designs. A clean-sheet-of-paper approach is always invited, yet adapting an established shipyard technical platform to a client’s architectural requirements can be the perfect win-win scenario. Images below represent that project’s far more comprehensive body of work. We welcome an enquiry for your special project.

BLUE CITADEL

This 60metre (197 foot) ocean-going motoryacht is developed in cooperation with the famous Lurssen shipyard. Here, the yard’s proven technical platform underlays the unique spatial and architectural design.
This steel-hulled vessel has a lightweight aluminium superstructure for idealised motion at sea. The hullform is optimised for a combination of speed, range, comfort, and efficiency.
The rigorous interior architecture, with style to be led by the client, has a voluminous master stateroom on the main deck.

PROJECT GALAXIAS

The 75.00 metre (246.00 foot) design uses timeless “liner” proportions combined with contemporary, practical detailing over robust construction. Gross tonnage is estimated at 2200.
The original sketch for GALAXIAS. All of the essential elements including deck levels, which permit the considerable “sheer” of the hull, are illustrated. Shapes and details evolve, but ideally, the essence of the intent remains.
A concept for the vessel’s Beach Club, an essential amenity of today’s motor yachts. The design is consciously formal, as the space will have a dual function: Reception area for guests arriving and departing via motor tender.

HEAVY WEATHER 90

This vessel is conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the 1920s “commuter” yacht, whose owners enjoyed such daily fast marine transport before modern roadways and limousines made them redundant.
This 27metre (90 foot) motor yacht has twin diesels and waterjet propulsion giving an estimated 30 knots. Three staterooms will accommodate 6 guests and a fourth at the stern quarters in crew, near the full galley.
A jet tender is housed in the stern, and launched via a linear crane that also serves as a boarding passarelle for stern-to mooring. Elevation and swing functions gives wide functionality to this electro-hydraulic item.

PROJECT ION

Conceived as an imposing motorship with classical lines, the ION sports something of an aircraft theme, being able to accommodate a variety of aircraft, including a 10-seat Grumman Mallard seaplane.
Estimated at 2450 gross tons, the 84 metre (275 foot), the 9360 horsepower ocean-going ship has an extraordinary specification, including IMO Tier III exhaust scrubbing, ensuring greener footprint under way.
This exterior profile variant highlights several features including fully-enclosed self-propelled lifeboats, heli-deck provision for aircraft the size of a Sikorsky SD76, and the commanding wrap-around viewing widows of the Observation Lounge, below the Bridge.

Explorer Yacht HE-Man

The HE-Man, for Hybrid Electric Manoeuvring, is a 68 metre (224 foot) with high capability, in part due to the array of versatile craft aboard the vessel. This ship embodies the highest safety compliance, including the IMO Tier III environmental exhaust system.
“Within the butch exterior, the yacht’s 5-deck interior offers an exciting twist to the conventional layout, utilising well-structured architectural interiors, graced by soft edges”. ~ Designer Richard Liebowitz
An excerpt of the HE-Man main deck, highlighting the philosophy of flexible internal spaces with multi-function uses. This is highly beneficial during extended stays onboard.

PROJECT KAISER

This blue vessel is the original concept rendering for a mighty ship of 100 metres in length (328 foot), and likely 5500 gross tons. Features include a custom 50 foot Rybovich sportfisherman, grand ballroom with 5 metre ceiling, enormous tender bay, and high-level security system.
This 88 meter (288ft) tobacco-coloured variant is a development of the original. While only 12 metres shorter, she is an estimated at half the gross tonnage (volume) of the 100m. Key features remain, including the dramatic multi-story atrium space.
The dramatic multi-story atrium is the signature element of the interior of KAISER.

PROPOSED CONVERSIONS

Military vessels, some with interesting features or provenance, can be a good starting point
Robust, ocean-going small freighters, can, with imagination, became a yacht with allure
Existing technical platforms can serve, not for refit, but as resolved engineering templates

Liebowitz & Partners
Penmenna Thirteen Erisey
Falmouth, Cornwall
TR11 2AP
United Kingdom

info@LParch.com
+44 (0)7970 270 500

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Liebowitz & Partners
Penmenna Thirteen Erisey
Falmouth, Cornwall
TR11 2AP
United Kingdom

info@LParch.com
+44 (0)7970 270 500

Awards

Liebowitz & Partners enjoy salutary professional industry recognition.