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Grzywinski + Pons

Broken Wharf Hotel

Interiors Hotels London 2021-03-04

Located in a 1970s office building in London, Broken Wharf Hotel was designed by New York interior design firm Grzywinski + Pons. The Chainmail curtains contrast sharply with the cream-colored walls. The idea was to reflect the dichotomy of London's cityscape.

The seven-story hotel has taken over the 1970s office building, which used to have bunny-style cubicles and ugly suspended ceilings. As a result, the building had to be completely demolished to accommodate the hotel's 113 rooms, a bar, co-working areas and delise-style restaurants. Expansive glass panels were also used to make the underground public areas lighter and more open.Grzywinski+Pons were able to manipulate the building sectionally - theey removed some floor area to create double height space while stitching it in elsewhere to accommodate more guest rooms.These hybridized elements became the foundation of the ultimate aesthetic of the property they were recreating.

Grzywinski+Pons also employed the low ceilings to create taut, intimate parts of the public spaces even while celebrating the prodigious length of the plan and the opportunities to look clear across it. They layered canopies, designed mobile screens and enlisted structural elements in these expansive volumes to imply divisions and thresholds lest the scale mitigated the warmth and comfort within the tacit divisions of bar, lounge, coworking, cafe and restaurant.

The design of the hotel was equally inspired by the unique site of the project as well as the nature of the building Grzywinski+Pons adapted. The linear plan links two antithetical poles, each of which is equally and quintessentially London: On one side of the building have some of the most spectacular and picturesque vistas overlooking the Thames only steps away from the Millennium Bridge, with the Tate Modern, London Eye and Southbank Centre right on doorstep; then, just tens of meters to the north, have a brutalist cross town artery — a dystopian vehicular tunnel straight out of Blade Runner. 

The social space on the ground floor is intended to behave like connective tissue between London’s hard edge and the serenity of the Thames. There is special resonance given the tension of the warmly enveloping interior and the adjacent concrete viaduct. The design at large reflects this duality: Grzywinski+Pons revealed and celebrated the raw bones of the building and added some expressionistic ones of own in addition to employing other elevated industrial materials like perforated stainless steel panels, chain mail curtains and champagne steel framing. The furnishings and fixtures and other materials within however are texturally lush, warm and inviting — translucent green onyx, suede, leather, wool and tweed upholstery, timber, jute, rattan, creamy terrazzo and limestone surrounded by succulents and ferns.

The design of the guest rooms is consistent with Grzywinski+Pons approach in that they perpetuate this juxtaposition with their own duality. They designed the majority of the furniture within, creating matte/gloss tension, employing the aspirational bling of chrome, stainless steel, smoked glass and polished copper softened by the warmth and enveloping tactility of timber, stone, wool, cane and butterscotch upholstery.

A coffered wainscoting detail is deployed on the faceted exterior perimeter walls, enclosing building services while highlighting the characteristic form of the building. The rooms' palette was also informed by the exterior; the pale sage complements the faded shades of burnt orange spandrels and brickwork of the exterior while the vermillion window frames and sills fold the facade into the room. The kitchens too are congruent, showcasing marble and birch ply detailing paired with copper pulls and smoked glass and steel appliances.

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