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Hotel Mercure
the World Of Hospitality
Hotel Mercure
In Bucharest
Hotel Mercure Bucharest City Center is
a building with a story behind. The story
appeared as a design consequence and
has been further used as a feature for the
hotel, which is a story-telling type.
The hotel facades have taken and
reinterpreted architectural and symbolic
elements from the immediate vicinity,
so as to emit a cultural message, both
urban and stylistically consistent.
As it is situated in a historic and eclectic
neighborhood, but very central, we’ve
had several attempts to find means of
stylistic expression, until we decided
that the future building must contribute
synergistically to the character of
the area, which led to a contextual
approach.
The houses on this particular street
were an inspiration for the arched
windows, which we alternated with
rectangular ones, in a playful manner;
also, we reiterated one of the Romanian
Athenaeum’s main architectural features,
the portico, which is detached from the
main volume and ceded to public space.