Hotel Mercure

Bucharest / Romania / 2014

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When designing the façade of the Mercure Hotel in the centre of Bucharest the team of Arhi Grup reinterpreted architectural and symbolic elements from the immediate vicinity. The houses on the street where the hotel is located were an inspiration for the arched windows, which are playfully alternated with rectangular ones. The graphical collage of cultural symbols that spans the façade and incorporates a series of muses, symbolic features and neoclassical architecture, all made of light, generates the impression of a huge modern fresco. The collage of the building is continued by the mix of materials used: plaster, routed metal and ALUCOBOND® in a dark grey colour. The colour palette blends harmoniously into the surroundings. The architecture itself and the cultural symbols are a homage to Bucharest’s Romanian Athenaeum, a concert hall and significant landmark in the Romanian capital. The muses depicted on the façade are inspired by the pair of muses “descending” from a ceiling at the George Enescu Museum, which is housed in Cantacuzino Palace. George Enescu was a famous Romanian composer and violinist. The Athenaeum and the George Enescu Museum are close to the hotel.


 


Architects: ARHI GRUP, George Mihalache | Romania
Year of Construction: 2014
Product: ALUCOBOND® solid colours Dark Grey

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    When designing the façade of the Mercure Hotel in the centre of Bucharest the team of Arhi Grup reinterpreted architectural and symbolic elements from the immediate vicinity. The houses on the street where the hotel is located were an inspiration for the arched windows, which are playfully alternated with rectangular ones. The graphical collage of cultural symbols that spans the façade and incorporates a series of muses, symbolic features and neoclassical architecture, all made of...

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    • Year 2014
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Hotel/Resorts
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