Aloft London ExCeL in London, United Kingdom

January 01, 2011 Category: Commercial Building, Hotel

Aloft London ExCeL that located in London, United Kingdom , designed by Jestico + Whiles’. innovative design provides 252 guest bedrooms of different sizes, front of house areas including a triple height entrance hall, bar, lounge, meeting rooms and fitness suite, back of house areas with offices, and a separate bar and restaurant which will spill out onto a new pedestrian piazza.

The building is formed of three elements: a central ‘spine’ contains bedrooms and vertical circulation and is flanked by two crescents which house further bedrooms and gently curving corridors. The ‘serpentine’ form of the building helps to define external spaces and is also driven by a number of restrictions on construction allied to the clients’ requirements in terms of guestroom types and mix.

The hotel will be clad in several thousand coloured, textured stainless-steel shingles. The glazed façades will feature a large-scale screen-printed pattern, inspired by the illusion of depth seen in some of Bridget Riley’s paintings.

Aloft London ExCeL design by Jestico + Whiles