The Hoxton, Vienna opens its doorways within the metropolis’s culturally prosperous third district: an space with a wealthy cultural panorama, together with famend museums and prestigious artwork and music colleges. Located close to historic landmarks just like the 18th-century Belvedere Palace and the Nineteenth-century Vienna State Opera, the lodge splices town’s wealthy heritage with the fashionable, considerate design that defines the British hospitality model.
The Hoxton, Vienna
The brand new lodge, which serves as The Hoxton group’s fifteenth property globally (from London, together with Southwark, to Los Angeles), is housed inside the former headquarters of the Austrian Financial Chambers, constructed within the Nineteen Fifties by Austrian architect Carl Appel. BWM Designers & Architects undertook its conversion, guaranteeing the façade retained its unique traits whereas eschewing trendy additions. As Markus Kaplan, accomplice on the studio, describes, this strategy brings ‘the starkness and austerity of postwar structure to up to date constructing tradition’.
Throughout the marble-clad landmark, 196 homely rooms and a dynamic vary of facilities designed by AIME Studios emerge; first in line is a two-storey foyer boasting unique terrazzo flooring, columns wrapped in fluted anodised aluminium and a dramatic back-lit staircase. From the Paris- and New York-inspired Bouvier bistro restaurant to the basement speakeasy named Salon Paradise, and Cayo Coco, the Cuban-inspired rooftop bar and pool, it turns into clear that the Ennismore-founded inside design agency has succeeded in honouring the Austrian midcentury aesthetic whereas incorporating playful and stylish touches, such because the regionally sourced, classic furnishings, wealthy textures and geometric shapes seen all through.
A primary for The Hoxton model is the lodge’s Auditorium, that includes tiered cinema-style seating, striped partitions and hanging electric-blue drapes, all inside a spacious 300 sq m space. The versatile venue can host myriad occasions, from comedy exhibits to acoustic performances. In the meantime, a gathering and occasion room dubbed the House blends basic coffeehouse tradition with a standard Austrian restaurant ambiance. Distinctive paintings curated by Sterling Artwork adorns The Hoxton, Vienna, together with an summary botanical piece by Austrian artist Rini Spiel within the foyer and an oil portray of the Konzerthaus façade by native artist Rudolf Fitz.
The Hoxton, Vienna is positioned at Rudolf-Sallinger-Platz 1, thehoxton.com
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