ART HOTEL

In the fall of 2019, we were commissioned to redesign a 4000m2 old industrial site that included several derelict workshop buildings and warehouses. The owner envisioned constructing a modern garden-villa. The new structure was intended to function as a hotel with approximately 20 rooms, while also accommodating a vacation villa for the owner's family. We decided with the owner to incorporate additional public spaces to transform the project into a cultural and tourist hub that could attract visitors beyond just hotel guests. Atelier LI The location is bordered by a river to the north, a town road to the west, and an orchard-field to the east. To the south, a tall wall is required to block the neighboring industrial site. The main ent... More

Situated in the Cloud-living Mountain of Jiangxi Province, China, the origin of Zen culture, this project features a Zen-themed hotel comprised of four buildings. These include a reception center that houses a restaurant, gallery, and other communal areas; a tea house on the east side for tea tasting and meditation; and two guest room volumes located to the north, nestled against the foothill on different elevation platforms.  Atelier LI Atelier LI Atelier LI The buildings are spread throughout the mountainous landscape, some appearing to float above the ground, emphasizing a sense of lightness. Horizontal forms come from the original dorm of monks with the extreme simplicity. Local bamboo is utilized as a grille on the... More

Conversion of an old apartment building neighboring a Bangkok shanty town into a gay art hotel. Alberto Cosi Chiangmai Life Architects is proud to present our latest project, a colorful conversion of an old apartment building neighboring a Bangkok shanty town into a unique boutique hotel. Our team was approached by the owners of this 30-year-old 5-storey building with the exciting proposition of transforming their existing old building into an LGBTQ friendly art hotel that embraces the co-existence and clash of two worlds - the bustling tourist scene of Sukhumvit and the neighboring Klong Toey harbor shanty town. Alberto Cosi Instead of designing another “modern city spa hotel” in brown and grey that could be built a... More

The project of an office and hotel complex in the center of Odessa 2019.I proceeded from the task of carefully inserting a new building into the historical context of the city on the site of an old, emergency building. For increased comfort of the complex and to unload the city center, a multi-level parking has been developed.  Caption Expecting that the city authorities and architects of the city would be skeptical about such a contrasting introduction of the proposed building into the existing historical environment of the city,  I simultaneously developed, without a significant change in the planning solution, the second version in the  Renaissance style with a minimal risalit and the third version with a classical p... More

Located in New Acton, a diverse new precinct in Canberra, Nishi Commercial is a major development housing government departments, private offices, a cinema and cafés. Nishi Residential is a multi-storey apartment building housing 2 floors of hotel rooms wrapped around a central courtyard and light well. The ground floor contains Hotel Hotel’s lobby, reception, concierge and bar, as well as retail and hospitality tenancies. March Studio was engaged to create all the spaces on the ground floor of the boutique hotel, which encouraged residents, guests and visitors to linger in what would otherwise be known as transient space. The walls in the hotel lobby, including the seating, the benches and the counters are an attempt to bri... More

HOTEL STONE 9 pays attention to interaction and entertainment, the primary target is the young tourist born in 1990s and 2000s. Compared with other hotels, we hope Stone 9 could provide a better condition for communications and could be a lively and vivacious gathering place for young people. We also hope the guests feel some local culture during the staying period, so that to give them a profound impression of Chongqing.   In the original site plan, rooms connected by a closed, narrow corridor, and there is not any public area to use, that is definitely not the space form we were expecting. In order to create a more interesting hotel, we downsize the space of hotel rooms, that makes the narrow corridor to be more capacious and versa... More

In Villa Amistà the story blends with the contemporary interior furnishings, the result of the creativity of the famous designer Alessandro Mendini and with the numerous works by internationally renowned artists that make this hotel a real contemporary art and design museum. For this particular project, the 4607 model, the most classic of Venetian chandeliers, impressive in its magnificence in a polychrome version. More