East Hotel / CL3 Architects. Architects: CL3 Architects Location: Island East, Hong Kong, China Project Team: William Lim, Raymond Chow, Arthur Wai Client: Swire Properties Project Area: 17,000 sqm Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Nirut Benjabanpo East, a business hotel located in a residential/commercial neighbourhood in Hong Kong, takes a different look at hotel design by planning from the inside-out. CL3 Architects, the interior architect was appointed early in the design process, 4.5 years ago, to carry out the space planning of the rooms and public areas, consisting of the entrance, lobby reception, all day dining, health club, 339 guestrooms, 6 suites and a rooftop bar, as an integral part of the architecture.
It is the interior spatial experience rather than ornamentation that shapes the design. The name “EAST” resulted from the design concept which interprets the contemporary Oriental/Hong Kong travel experience as being world class, efficient, modern, playful, with a touch of Chinese culture. Vivanta Hotel / WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design. Architects: WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design Location: Whitefield, Bangalore, India Client: The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) Collaborator: Spazzio Design Architecture Project Area: 19,638 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Aaron Pocock, Sebastian Zachariah, Harshan Thomson, Wong Chiu-Man The Brief TAJ Hotels, Resorts and Palaces engaged WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design to design the flagship of their new brand Vivanta.
Located at the entrance of the International Tech Park at Whitefield, Bangalore (ITPB), India, the hotel is a gateway statement between the IT Park and the developing city around it. The brief inspired the team to question and push the boundaries of hotel design, not just to address the needs of the discerning business traveller coming to Whitefield, but also to redefine and intensify the hotel as a contemporary socio-cultural hub for both the IT Park and IT-based population in Whitefield. Our Solution for Architecture, Interior, Landscape. Hotel ME Barcelona / Dominique Perrault Architecture.
Architects: Dominique Perrault Architecture Location: Barcelona, Spain Partner Architects: Corada Figueras Arquitectos Local Architect: AIA Salazar-Navarro Engineering: Perrault Projets (architectural engineering) BOMA Robert Brufau i Associats (structure), AIA Salzar-Navarro (fluids), Querol & Colomer (acoustics consultant) Project Manager: Tag Management Technical Controller: Socotec Iberia Client: Hoteles Sol-Melia Total Floor Area: 29,334 sqm Completion: 2008 Photographs: André Morin, Miguel de Guzman Designed for the Habitat group in Barcelona and now managed by ME, this hotel integrates the two dimensions that compose the identity of the Catalonian capital: the horizontality of its grid, legacy of the Cerdà plan, extending all the way to the sea, and its dynamic verticality exemplified by the Sagrada Familia and Mount Tibidabo looming over the sight.
The way these boxes are placed against each other is key to the distribution of the variousfunctions. Architecture World Map. Naslovnica. TCH Boutique Hotel / Abramson Teiger Architects. Designed by Abramson Teiger Architects, the TCH boutique hotel, located in downtown Los Angeles, weaves the nature of the temporal society with the evolving art world. Reflecting the architects’ philosophy of a visually dynamic architecture which evokes a sense of peace, sanctuary, and productivity, the art gallery becomes a backdrop to viewed experiences while the hotel becomes a backdrop to the guests.
They are both fortresses of collections: a collection of art and a collection of people. All spaces within the 47 rooms activate as a gallery resulting in a building that activates as an art piece. More images and architects’ description after the break. Art within hotels has typically been secondary. Light passing through these perforations (eyes) is visible inside during the day and outside at night. 7800 Çeşme Residences and Hotel / Emre Arolat Architects. Architect: Emre Arolat Architects Location: Ceşme-izmir, Turkey Concept-preliminary Project: Emre Arolat, Gani Turunç Final Project: Sezer Bahtiyar Construction Project: Gonca Paşolar, Sezer Bahtiyar Project Team: Zeki Samer, Mürüvvet Gülcan Sahin, Nesime Onel, Gözde Sazak, Tayfun Aksoy, Gülin Derman, Olcay Ozten, Ufuk Berberoğlu, Murat Sahin, Serkan Duman Client: Carmıklı, Kalyoncu, Tamtex Construction: Carmıklı Yapı Structural: Balkar Mechanical: Ihsan Akçay Interior Design: Dara Kırmızıtoprak Project Year: 2008 Project Area: 15,734 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Emre Arolat Architects From a lovely seaside town to pompous a holiday village…Çeşme has reached a multiply increasing summer population with touristy motivation of the last decade.
This unpredictable growth, like all lately explored villages of Mediterranean and Aegean region, makes an inevitable transformation both sociologically and physically in Çeşme. Main mass has been made closer to the border of the road. Downtown LA Hotel / XTEN Architecture. XTEN Architecture is planning a new, 65,000-square-foot hotel in downtown Los Angeles, California. The monolithic concrete structure will be carved by a system of slots and slices that bring light, air and views deep into the building. Equipped with a performance-based lobby, two subterranean bars, restaurant and a rooftop terrace featuring an infinity edge pool, this mid-rise hotel will surely attract some attention. Continue after the break to learn more!
Located on a 50×150 foot infill parcel in downtown Los Angeles, the freestanding concrete structure will be surrounded by alleys and streets. The lobby is an abstract, multi-use gallery and performance space resting on a floor clad in bricks salvaged from the parcel’s existing building. The hotel rooms are conceived as solid volumes which float freely within the structural frame provided by the overall concrete monolith.
From the interior, the building is light, airy.