HOTELES SILKEN, PUERTA AMÉRICA, MADRID
The Spanish hotel chain, Hoteles Silken, invited twelve international and renown architects to interpret their twelve floors using whatever form, material and colour as an illustration of their taste and style in hotel rooms. Each architect was given a whole floor to work on with cubicles of room to showcase their ideas.Here are some of the rooms – really great and brilliant way to bring about individual creativity all in one location!
The 1st floor, by Zaha Hadid, features supple lines and fluid spaces. The rooms are virtually a study on the potentials of LG’s Hi-Macs. The bed, the desk, and the rest of the furniture seem to protrude from the walls. Hadid designed a very capacious seat with a lightweight look for Puerta America.
Norman Foster’s hi-tech elegance for the 2nd floor, with the collaboration of the Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida. The back-lit translucent glass walls, a central element of the design, form the connection between the corridor and the room and penetrate into the bathroom, serving as a wall in the shower. The bathroom ceiling is made of backlit stretched canvas, reinforcing the hi-tech, futuristic feel. A large onyx element, which serves as a sink in the bathroom, runs along one of the walls and becomes a desk in the room, gracefully connecting the two rooms.
The 3rd floor, the work of David Chipperfield.
Flowing, round lines define the rooms of the 7th floor designed by Ron Arad. The large curved wall suggests a course of gradually “discovering” the spaces: first, the entrance, then the bed, then the desk, then the bathroom. –ottagonale
by J. MARISCAL – F. SALAS
by KATHRYN FINDLAY
by VICTORIO – LUCCHINO
by PLASMA STUDIO
by ARATA ISOZAKI
