Project Spotlight / International
Nuovo by Armani/Casa
Thirty-three floors above Panama Bay, a fashion house set the tone and VIGO filled in the bathrooms and kitchens. A study in doing less, precisely.
NUOVO by Armani/Casa — 33 floors above Panama Bay, Bella Vista, Panama City
The Brief
A fashion house does not decorate a building. It edits one.
Armani/Casa’s signature has always been subtraction — greige and black, straight lines, and nothing left in a room that has not earned its place. So when the interiors of a 33-story tower in Panama City carry that name, everything installed inside inherits an unusually strict brief: be excellent, and be quiet.
That is harder for a fixture than it sounds. A faucet cannot hide behind a sofa. A shower is the one part of a home a resident stands inside, alone, every morning. Get it wrong and it is the only thing they remember.
The Setting
A tower in Bella Vista
Nuovo rises in one of Panama City’s most established addresses and finishes with a Sky Club on the roof — pool, gym, yoga room and a terrace that takes in Panama Bay, the old streets of Casco Antiguo, and the Canal beyond. Inside are fully furnished one- and two-bedroom residences with ten-foot ceilings, Italian doors, custom closets and marble floors, run as a full-service building closer to a five-star hotel than a condo stack.
- 01 — Fixed single-panel shower screens — Meridian, one tempered-glass panel per shower
- 02 — Shower panels — Rector, rainfall head, body jets and handheld
- 03 — Bathroom toilets
- 04 — Shower drains — flush-set for curbless floors
- 05 — Bathroom accessories — Arden hardware sets: towel bars, hooks, paper holders
- 06 — Kitchen faucets — Livingston, pro-style pull-down spray
01 / The Glass
One sheet of glass, and no door at all
Every shower is closed by the VIGO Meridian shower screen — one fixed, stationary panel of tempered glass held in a slim matte-black frame, and nothing else. Nothing swings, nothing slides, no track runs dry. Rather than adding an enclosure, the panel removes one wall of it: the shower stops being a box and becomes an opening, and the stone runs unbroken from the room into the shower.
Charcoal marble, one fixed panel, no door
02 / The Water
Three showers, resolved into one column
Behind the glass sits the VIGO Rector shower panel: a rainfall head overhead, two body jets down the spine, and a handheld wand, all fed through a single slim column. A resident gets three different showers from one object. The alternative specification is a rain head, a hand shower, body sprays and a wall of trim plates — five things to align, seal and eventually service. One column replaces all of it, which is how a tower with hundreds of bathrooms stays maintainable in its tenth year rather than just its first.
White Calacatta marble, the Rector column doing the work of five fixtures
03 / The Kitchen
The one place a fixture may look like a tool
In an open-plan apartment the kitchen is never off-stage — it is furniture that happens to cook. So the VIGO Livingston kitchen faucet is allowed to be the exception to all this disappearing: a semi-professional spring gooseneck with a black cFiber coil over a stainless-steel body, hose exposed on purpose, with a 360-degree swivel spout and a dual-function pull-down spray head. It reads as equipment rather than trim. Armani/Casa interiors are calm to the point of hush; one mechanical object at the counter gives the eye somewhere to land.
The Livingston at the island — equipment, on purpose
One Column, Three Finishes
The same specification, three palettes
A tower does not run one color scheme. The same Rector shower panel is specified in three finishes so a matte-black bathroom, a warm brass one and a cool stainless one all read as the same decision.
“In a room this disciplined, a fixture earns its place by disappearing.” — The VIGO Design Ethos
A third stone, the same decision — grey marble, identical specification
Two Projects
Two projects, one idea
A mountain resort in Colorado and an Armani/Casa tower in Panama could not look more different. The brief underneath them is identical: give people fixtures that work perfectly, look intentional, and then get out of the way.
“Good design travels. So do good fixtures.”
In short
Nuovo by Armani/Casa is a 33-floor luxury residential tower in Bella Vista, Panama City, with interiors curated by Armani/Casa. VIGO supplied seven categories across its bathrooms and kitchens, including the Meridian fixed single-panel shower screens, the Rector shower panels, shower drains, Arden bath hardware and the Livingston kitchen faucets.
Key takeaways
- Nuovo by Armani/Casa is a 33-floor tower in Bella Vista, Panama City, with a rooftop Sky Club and fully furnished one- and two-bedroom residences.
- VIGO supplied seven categories across the building's bathrooms and kitchens.
- Every shower closes with one fixed Meridian tempered-glass panel — nothing swings, nothing slides.
- The Rector shower panel resolves a rainfall head, two body jets and a handheld into a single column, specified in three finishes.
- The Livingston kitchen faucet is the deliberate exception: equipment, not trim, on an open-plan counter.
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Shop the piecesMeridian shower screen
A single tempered panel in a slim matte-black frame that turns a shower into a walk-in opening, with almost nothing to service.
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Rector shower panel
Rainfall head, two body jets and handheld in one column — three showers, one set of controls.
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Livingston kitchen faucet
Semi-pro spring gooseneck with a 360° swivel and dual-function pull-down spray, built for an open-plan counter.
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Explore the rangeFixed Shower Screens
One stationary panel of tempered glass — no swing, no track, nothing to service.
Shop Fixed Shower ScreensShower Panels
Rainfall head, body jets and handheld resolved into a single wall-mounted column.
Shop Shower PanelsKitchen Faucets
Pro-style pull-down spouts built for open-plan kitchens where the faucet is always on stage.
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Questions, answered
What is Nuovo by Armani/Casa?
Nuovo by Armani/Casa is a 33-floor luxury residential tower in Bella Vista, Panama City, with interiors curated by Armani/Casa, the home design arm of Giorgio Armani. It offers fully furnished one- and two-bedroom residences with ten-foot ceilings and marble floors, and a rooftop Sky Club with a pool, gym and terrace overlooking Panama Bay, Casco Antiguo and the Panama Canal.
Which VIGO products were supplied to Nuovo by Armani/Casa?
VIGO supplied seven categories across the building’s bathrooms and kitchens: the Meridian fixed single-panel shower screens, the Rector shower panels with a rainfall head, body jets and handheld, bathroom toilets, shower drains, Arden bathroom hardware sets and the Livingston kitchen faucets.
What is a fixed single-panel shower screen?
A fixed single-panel shower screen — here the VIGO Meridian — is one stationary sheet of tempered glass that screens a walk-in shower with no moving door. Because nothing swings or slides, it needs no floor clearance, has very few parts to maintain, and leaves sightlines open — which makes a small bathroom feel larger and lets tile or stone run uninterrupted.
What does the VIGO Rector shower panel include?
The VIGO Rector shower panel combines a rainfall shower head, two body jets and a handheld wand in one wall-mounted column with integrated controls. It replaces several separate fixtures and valves with a single unit, which simplifies installation and long-term maintenance — a meaningful advantage in multi-unit residential buildings.
Does VIGO supply international and multi-unit projects?
Yes. Alongside its retail range, VIGO supplies hospitality and multi-residential projects internationally, including this tower in Panama City. Sourcing bath and kitchen categories from a single manufacturer keeps finishes consistent across hundreds of units and simplifies replacement parts later.
Why specify one brand across bathrooms and kitchens?
Single-sourcing keeps finishes, forms and service parts consistent from the shower glass to the kitchen faucet, reduces the number of vendors a developer coordinates, and makes future maintenance far simpler — a cartridge or a hinge comes from one supplier rather than five.
Further reading
Good design travels. So do good fixtures.
Armani/Casa set the tone. The developer set the standard. VIGO filled in the bathrooms and kitchens that residents use every day without thinking about them once — in Estes Park, in Panama City, and wherever the next one lands.
