urban hotel CONCEPT DESIGN  

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Situated in the heart of a metropolis downtown, the Urban Hotel Concept is a 17 story, 325 key boutique hotel nestled within a surrounding fabric of skyscrapers and mid-rise buildings. Formally, the hotel responds to the varying scales of the surrounding area by visually breaking the podium from the guestroom tower, revealing a lower roof deck and garden.  The main hotel tower is offset to the back of the site, allowing a more human scale to the street frontage.  At the street, the podium levels are organized with restaurants and bars located at the edges, providing additional vitality to the urban fabric.  A  void in the geometry at the top of the tower provides a covered outdoor dining area and adjacent lounge deck with panoramic views of Midtown and Downtown.  The hotel program includes retail, car rental, a restaurant, rooftop lounge, and 7500 square feet of meeting and banquet spaces.