The Peak Resort Proposal | Derbyshire | UK | Stanton Williams

Leisure development comprising a golf course redesigned to PGA standards, hotel accommodation, indoor extreme sports arena, indoor lawn games hall, conference hall and 250 lodges in the woods. The project revisits and updates a 1989 outline planning application with a view to submitting a revised matters application for a phased development of the resort.
Stanton Williams have been appointed to develop the design and coordinate the design team to deliver planning submission level of detail supported by an Environmental Statement encompassing all the environmental site issues ranging from sustainable development, ecology, wild life, landscape, visual and environmental impact.........more

Studio City Hotel | Dubai | UAE | Soehne and Partner Architects

Now Dubai is going to make films, creating fictions. Dubai Studio City will be the next Mecca of the global illusions-industry. It is a logical consequence of Dubai's city history. Following the essence of Paul Auster's statement, Dubai found his new way to create fictions in making movies.

In this context the strongest expressions for fictions are science fiction movies, because in sci-fi movies the journey goes on and it never ends, it's just a question of creativity. The medium for the fiction trip is the spaceship. The Hotel we designed is also a medium, a medium for hospitality, but it's not a spaceship, because it can not fly - just in movies.

So it is the inverse of a spaceship it is a space harbour for business people, actors and people who wants to taste the atmosphere of illusions..........more

As a metaphore, the harbour stands for a way through, an interface - a place where illusions are coming true or also new challenges. Hotels are quite similar, because people in a hotel are also on a way through and looking forward to the next future.

Seaside Resort | Birnbeck Island | Weston-super-Mare | Fletcher Priest Architects

Seaside towns and ports encapsulate the romance and character of the British. For over two hundred years, they provided an escape from centres of industry. Ordinary and exotic co-existed side by side, and discovering the extraordinary in the ordinariness is what excites the curious visitor. Birnbeck Island has been used as a steamer pier, a weapon testing area and a pier-head ride with recreational facilities. The proposal takes advantage of the isolated location, the perfect setting for a hedonistic life-style, based upon health and well being........more

Architectural Design Competition | Hotel Paineiras | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Apiacas Arquitectos

A rectangular prism embedded in the ground according to a new foundation, against pre-existing topography, allowing the very slope of the Painswick Road allows access to each floor of the garage in order to minimize the use of ramps for cars. This structure - sometimes buried, sometimes down - allows the creation of a space quota 751.20 for the transfer of passengers, creating the need to control access to the Corcovado Road. Positioned on elevation 760.20, the coverage takes the level of the ground floor of the hotel as a reference, creating an open but protected, able to accommodate the trade, public toilets, access to the box office and train station........more

Kuelap Lodge Museum |Amazonas Region | Peru | KLNB Architects

Architectural design competition held in 2007 by Arquitectum. A cultural facilities of 1600m2......more

Ningbo Zijiakeng Hotel | Ningbo City | China | W2 Architects

The three egg shaped tower, on the mountains of Ninghai near Ningbo city, tries to emulate the notion of nature and mountainous terrain as an alternative to human habitation. To be built specifically, as a hotel and residential tower, it is expected to deliver supreme living pleasure and comfort amidst august natural surroundings. Geometrically, the tower profile starts from a simple rounded square and travels upwards to be transformed into a circular geometry. This gradual, deformation and eventual transformation of profile, creates a visual voyage, encumbered with ambiguity yet uniformity...........more

Z Hotel | Z City | Shandong Province | China | Beijing Matsubara and Architects

This project has started from the idea of how the hotel building, with the Huang Mountain on the background, can have an abstract look on the exterior wall, by viewing from the highway on the Southwest of the site.
Our idea is to place a waterfall-like building in front of the mountain, and this building is connected to the river-like street. Therefore, we can create the sceneries as if the street continues to the Daixi Lake on the West side of the mountain. The building height is about 60 meters, standing on the hillside, and its exterior walls imitate a stream of waterfall. These exterior walls are linked to the ground on the front garden in front of the building, and continue on to the lakefront just like a river. Viewing from the highway which is far from the mountain, this waterfall suddenly appears on the hillside. It looks as if streaming into the lakefront. With the view of Huang Mountain, the scenery like an “alpine living stream” can be created at this site in the end.
The hotel building is about 60 meters tall, and there will be 15 floors of guest rooms. All the guest rooms can look over the lake very well. The exterior walls are made out of concrete and glass, and they are depicted as a stream of the waterfall. A large hall, a restaurant, conference rooms, recreation rooms, and parking lots will be placed in the podium under the guest rooms. Especially, the large hall with the central stair-like space will become an attractive space. The ground material of the plaza on the West side in front of the hotel has been finished with the tiles in the color close to the exterior walls. This ground becomes a street and connect to the Daixi Lake. During the night, LED lights, installed on the building exterior walls and street, express a stream of water. The present sculptures for the lakefront were replaced on the center of this street, and the surrounding area is redeveloped as a large plaza.
Because the hotel currently exists in a property where the three star hotel stands, this current building will be demolished and the new building will be newly constructed instead. The stream from Huang Mountain hillside on the North side of this project will be restored, and becomes a beautiful garden.........more

Architectural Design Competition | Paineiras Hotel Complex Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Estúdio América

To develop a complex project inside one of the greatest urban forests in the world, the Tijuca Forest, may seem contradictory at first. A territory which is seen as one of the lungs of Rio de Janeiro should, at first sight, be untouchable. The great movement of people who, in a daily basis, have one of the “seven wonders” of modern world as their destiny, the Redeemer Christ, changes that original point of view. The question that urges is how to accommodate such an incompatibility? A response to that question appears as a positive opportunity. Besides finding a solution to a complicated tangle of distinct flows and ways of transportation, it is a chance to inform and bring awareness to the 6000 daily tourists of the forests’ richness and the importance of its’ preservation........more

Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses | WTG

The Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) allows governments, developers, entrepreneurs, hoteliers, private organizations, and charitable aid societies the opportunity to create, design, develop and implement amazing new hospitality, vacation, housing, emergency shelter and support structures that are functional, beautiful, simple and adaptable to numerous situations in almost any geography. The organic, geometric-shaped Prisms of the PATHWAY system are collapsible for ease in transportation, are pre-fitted with built-in fixtures and furnishings, and come with self-contained energy, plumbing and lighting systems and self-leveling foundations.....more

End of the World Quality Spa and Ressort | Atelier Oslo

End of the World Quality Spa & Ressort is a spa hotel with apartments located in Tjøme. There was a regulatory basis for the project as defined four elongated two-storey building volumes for hotel rooms above the ground, and a spa and hotel facility partially underground.

Intentions
Construction volumes above ground is designed so that there are sea views from all apartments. Most apartments are on two floors, and we wanted to give the apartments both evening sun, morning sun and generous terraces. Under the ground brought light into the hotel cannot score in the landscape. The spa is designed so that the curved walls leading visitors through various spaverdener with different contents. We want this project to develop a principle which we have fewer and rational elements to develop an architecture that appears to both organic and free......more

Mountain Hotel | Geilo | Sea Valley in Geilo | Atelier Oslo

Geilo is the name of a mountain hotel with about 200 apartments, located in the Sea Valley in Geilo. The plot is unregulated, and the premise was to create a hotel in the valley by the ski lifts with an integrated parking for the cottages around.

Intentions
A premise of this study was that the plant would be integrated into the landscape, and not shield the view behind. We wanted to develop a principle which all the rooms in the hotel should have the best view of the beautiful nature around, without seeing anything else. This we achieved by adding rooms, terraced strip in the terrain along the contours. By bukle these bands, we added the desired number of rooms. Another premise was to provide direct skiadkomst to the rooms. Therefore, the terraces sloping, and allows you to ski in and ski-out. All circulation is added around the river that flows naturally through the project. A transparent intermediate in the project form an accessible place, where there is a lobby bar and restaurant. Parking is located inside the ground, behind the rooms with a direct connection.....more

Boutique Hotel | Pleat Tower | Dror

A play on the simplistic way of exploring the strength and structure inherent in a folded form. We refer to it as a horizontal tower.

Project PLEAT TOWER
Location -
Program 40,000 FT² BOUTIQUE HOTEL
Client -
Cost -
Type PROPOSAL
Date 2007
Status DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

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Studio City Hotel | Dubai | UAE | Sohne And Partners

The CODE UNIQUE HOTEL at Dubai Studio City is a place for offering a premium service to all travellers with the best amenities to make the stay of the guests more pleasurable and especially - inspirational.

The facade gives the hotel the name, it is not only an eyecatcher - the implication of the facade structure is a code - a special matrix code to be named - QR Code.....more

Le Meridien | Abu Dhabi | UAE | Woods Bagot

A planned redevelopment of the existing Le Meridien Hotel will transform the waterfront property into an exciting nexus for Abu Dhabi’s tourist club precinct. Located adjacent to Abu Dhabi Mall, the site faces Sowah Island’s new central business district and the recently completed Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange, developed by Mubadala. The 140 000 m2 redevelopment anticipates a new bridge connecting Abu Dhabi Island and Sowah Island that will divide the property into two sites.

The competition entry proposes replacing the existing hotel with a new mixed-use center comprising two hotels and a serviced apartment building, each 25-stories tall, as well as an 11-storey office building. A four-storey podium connects the hotel and activates the lower levels through retail, restaurant and marina programs.....more

South West Hotel | Beijing , China | Henn Studio B

The site of the five-star South West Hotel is located next to a major traffic junction of the West Fourth Ring Road and Lianhua Road in Beijing. The project is a multi-functional building complex, integrating three major programs: hotel, commerce and office. All the program units loop around a central courtyard peaking in a five-star hotel.

From the distance the overall complex creates a clearly identifiable landmark. The ascending curves of the volume are a reference to the dynamics of the context. The internal courtyard shields from the noise and the hectic city life creating a retreat for guests and customers – a shared communal habitat connecting the manifold programs.
The different spatial qualities between the exterior (city) and the interior (courtyard) are reflected in the building envelope. The inner façade appears open and transparent. Horizontal bands form balconies and outdoor gardens – secluded getaways for exchange and relaxation. The outer façade is a double layered multifunctional skin. It consolidates the miscellaneous programs behind a homogenous, large scaled surface. This surface serves as the screen for media and light installations during day and night. A matrix of LED light units supplements and surrounds a central high-end LED screen displaying commercials. The low resolution media installation (LED lights) works as a visual amplifier augmenting and abstracting the commercial content over the entire building façade.Client: South West Hotel.....more

Year: 2010
Location: Beijing, China
Program: Hotel, Conference, Office, Retail
Status: Competition, 2nd Prize
Design Team: Leander Adrian, Daniel da Rocha, Martin Henn, Markus Jacobi, Daniel Kraffczyk, Klaus Ransmayr, Max Schwitalla, Rainer Sladek, Sun Wei, Wang Zhenming
Local Partner: China Academy of Building Research (CABR)
Consultants: Priedemann Fassadenberatung GmbH, Thismedia, Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH