An Urban Hotel Posted on April 13th
The urban hotel, situated on King St W near Spadina Ave in Toronto, is in a prime downtown location and strives to embrace it, using data collected from a mapping project, the design evolved from a desire to integrate the hotel with the streetscape and to establish a “seen-and-be-seen” mentality. Each element of the hotel - bar, theatre, restaurant, and retail - has a separate entrance to the street, rather than creating an insular hotel lobby.
Escalators and bridges act as runways and catwalks, overlapping one another over cutouts in ground planes that visually connect different levels. The units continue to emphasize a sense of voyeurism, as their window systems open in their entirety.
The project’s dynamism is reflected in its facades - the video-LED curtainwall of the public spaces and the binary patterns generated by the windows of the hotel units themselves.
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