Area of intervention: architecture, landscape design, interior design.
The new hotel will be constructed within an abandoned industrial area and inaugurated in 2022, on the occasion of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The entire complex, named Shougang Park, is around 20 km from the Forbidden City and is where many of the Game’s sports venues will be situated. The 5-star hotel managed by Shangri-La will include a series of interconnected structures divided between the Main Building housing the common areas and the Guestrooms Building that will accommodate 282 rooms.
The first Crowne Plaza flagship hotel in China has been settled in Shenzhen, featuring “WorkLife” rooms. CCD was invited to conceive its interiors. By adopting innovative design approaches and modern style, CCD team interpreted the cutting-edge lifestyle in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. As the first opened hotel within the international 5-star hotel complex in Expo Bay of Shenzhen, the project will set a new benchmark for Crowne Plaza properties in China.
When architecture takes on the vibrancy and rich diversity of nature, it will never be perceived as alien. As part of a special hotel project, noa* has incorporated features that will evoke memories, dreams and perhaps a touch of adventure in every guest.
For many years the cosy guest rooms of Parc Hotel Florian, situated at the foothills of the village of Siusi allo Sciliar, has been providing the perfect year-round holiday experience. A unique feature of this property is the magnificent park, where you are encouraged to linger among ancient trees, an idyllic pond and an outdoor pool. The complex has recently been expanded with ten brand new suites in a stand-alone building, which connects to the existing structure, providing both a sense of continuity and a fresh perspective with a distinctive architectural language.
Breitenbach Landscape Hotel proposes a holistic and a true ecotourism experience in Alsace, inspired by Scandinavian traditions and building on the region’s culinary, wellness and nature opportunities. Perched on the heights of the Alsatian village of Breitenbach, the landscape hotel 48° Nord reinterprets the traditional Scandinavian hytte, a place of retreat and reconnection with wild nature. At the heart of a protected Natura 2000 site, the project was designed to fit into a preserved setting without ever disturbing it.
Santa Monica Proper Hotel combines the adaptive reuse of a designated Spanish Colonial Revival Landmark with a contemporary curvaceous concrete-and-glass curvaceous addition that creates a fresh perspective of the merging of modern and preservation architecture. This adaptive use of the 1928 Santa Monica Professional Building resulted in the city’s first “luxury lifestyle hotel.” The 1928 Santa Monica Professional Building was landmarked by the Landmarks Commission in 2005.
At the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and 7th Street, the façade of the contemporary addition draped around the Landmark building, reading as monumental and orderly juxtaposed waveforms. Photo: Tim Street-Porter
Located at the western edge of Lausanne’s central Le Flon district, this hotel building presents a monolithic mineral block that blends with the site’s industrial heritage. Utilising the template provided by the district’s street plan to optimum effect, the design echoes the dense urban grid patterns characteristic of Le Flon’s traditional warehouses and completes the square from which it is accessed. The four façades are uniform in appearance, their repeat motifs created by prefabricated concrete units. The design reflects the individual room modules, creating a continuous pattern of facets and folds across the building’s four sides. At ground level, geometric pillars tapering towards the base balance this massive carapace on more delicate points.
For the first time in Spain, Accor Hotels combines three brands in a unique concept in one of its most emblematic hotels in Madrid. Ibis Styles, Novotel and Insólito as the gastronomic brand, create a space that works as a whole, but where the taste of the three different brands can be felt and enjoyed.
The concept created by Stone Designs is inspired by the Spanish comics of the fifties and sixties, the so called “tebeos”. A time, when the American comics where very difficult to find and when a generation of great Spanish illustrators and vignette creators was born.
In January 2019, Hilton Chengdu Xiexin Hotel officially opened. Like all the works that require patience and meticulous polishing, this project, which lasted seven years from design to construction, is also the first project of Dushe Design. It’s late, but it’s worth the wait. Xiexin Hilton Hotel is part of Xiexin Center Project and is located in the east section of the second ring road in Chengdu. This is a 220,000-square-meter urban integrated community including Grade A office buildings, hotels, commercial and residential buildings. The hotel is the most challenging part.
The project approach to the remodeling accommodation units, is based on two remarkable pre-existing principles.
It is a building marked by its strong connection to the Japanese garden, developing around it, in a traditional central garden environment. The architecture that designs it, is a pragmatic exercise, very organized and formally within a reticulated pattern of contained dimensioning, in regular metrics.
In 2013, Chinese National Geographic hailed Songyang, a county to the southeast of the province of Zhejiang as “the last hidden gem south of the Yangtze River”. Here, more than a hundred ancient villages hide on the far side of mountain roads and undulating cliffs. Perhaps due to the difficult access to the region, it remains close to nature and far away from the bustle of the city.
However, once visitors arrive on-site, time and space are experienced differently; aged trees, ancient temples, old houses, all provide the most unique cultural atmosphere, authenticity sealed away from public view, worthy of being praised as “an example of the ancient Chinese county”.
Developer: Beijing Tong Heng Si Cheng Investment Co. Ltd
Chief designer: Liu Jiakun
Architectural design team: Chen Kan, Yang Ying, Liu Su, He Qiang, Yi Huizhong
Interior design team: Zhang Can, Chen Kan, Li Wenting, Yang Ying, He Qiang, Yi Huizhong, Deng Yu,Tang Jun, Wang Boyu, Liu Wenjing, Wang Zhangping, Yang Yan, Zhou Xiaohui & Guo Yuting
Landscape design team: Chen Kan, Yang Ying, He Qiang, Yi Huizhong & Li Jing
Signage design team: WUYONG ART & DESIGN, Zhang Can, Li Wenting