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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Hotel Mercure Bucharest City Center in Romania by ARHI GRUPJanuary 16th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: ARHI GRUP Hotel Mercure Bucharest City Center is a building with a story behind. The story appeared as a design consequence and has been further used as a feature for the hotel, which is a story-telling type.  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR
 Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR As it is situated in a historic and eclectic neighborhood, but very central, we’ve had several attempts to find means of stylistic expression, until we decided that the future building must contribute synergistically to the character of the area, which led to a contextual approach.  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR The hotel facades have taken and reinterpreted architectural and symbolic elements from the immediate vicinity, so as to emit a cultural message, both urban and stylistically consistent. The houses on this particular street were an inspiration for the arched windows, which we alternated with rectangular ones, in a playful manner; also, we reiterated one of the Romanian Athenaeum’s main architectural features, the portico, which is detached from the main volume and ceded to public space.  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR Last but not least, complementary to these archetypal items, on the main facade we have inserted a graphical collage of cultural symbols that takes the story further. Upon a crop of the entablement of the Romanian Athenaeum floats a pair of muses “descending” from the ceiling of the music salon of the museum George Enescu – double tribute to two great local symbols: Romanian Athenaeum (50m away from the hotel) and the great composer George Enescu, which gives the name of the street on which the hotel is located.  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR The technical process we used to accomplish the modern “fresco” is a very actual architectural solution: we used CNC perforated panels, placed at a certain distance from the facade support, creating the look and feel of depth by alternating light and shade. The hotel consists in some 6500 sqm of GBA, 2 basements and 7 floors above ground, having 114 rooms.  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Cosmin DRAGOMIR  Image Courtesy © Arhi Grup  Image Courtesy © Arhi Grup  Image Courtesy © Arhi Grup  Image Courtesy © Arhi Grup
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