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Bar and restaurant occupy one arm of the right angle the building forms, with the Reception and administration offices filling the other.
The bar acts as a focus but it is the restaurant that is popular and busy. Its layout allows for it to be split into smaller spaces, so that a childrens party for example doesn't impinge on the use of the rest of the space. There are almost three separate interconnected areas, and the whole is speaparated from the bar by a glazed wall.
The restaurant is not really visible from the reception area but opens up within to become a large pleasant space with large window areas. Food is good too.
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The workdesk is large and well lit. Again, the use of mirror is marked and adds to the lightness of the room. Rollover to see the very comfortable bedhead installation, understated but stylish
Bathrooms are very generously sized, with seaparate showers as well as bath tubs. Double doors open into the room and the positioning of the mirror opposite a mirror over the TCMF(again) adds to the spacious feel. Click to see the shower
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At the junction of the right angle is the lift lobby and the constriction of the space is what has given the layout its compressed relationships. Externally the building is strong; it is its internal layout on just this floor that seems weak. The same layout adds strength to the conference floor and works reasonably well for the gym area. The strongest part of the statement is the lift area where a glass car takes the guest up the outside of the building past conference and gym areas to the bedroom floors. The narrowness of the building is readily appreciated at higher levels where the lift lobbies have windows and views in two directions whilst the bedroom corridors go off in relatively short runs to the bedrooms. A lot has been packed in to a small site here, and where the public areas on the ground floor appear cramped the bedrooms are generous in size.
The bedroom corridors are relatively short but are very strong visually, with good use being made of mirror to accentuate width and increase the light. The form of the building works for the designers here unlike the public areas. The mirrors hide the access doors into the service ducts but work visually and decoratively.
"...good use being made of mirror to accentuate width and increase the light."
Bedrooms are generously sized, and large windows flood them with light. Bathrooms are also generously sized, giving them space enough for a separate shower area as well as a bathtub.
This use of space shows how a plan form for the building which compresses and creates problems in the public areas maximises the space for the bedrooms, allowing the creation of large rooms with generous spaces. Suites are even larger occupying two bedrooms worth of space alongside the corridors.
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