This 21-storey hotel building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, comprises more than 150 hotel rooms, eight meeting rooms, service facilities as well as commercial rental space.
On this basis of creating a dual-branded hotel development, where the hotel and hotel apartments were different brands with shared back of house facilities to maximise efficiency, this duality was reflected in the architectural approach.
Each hotel needed its own identity, while the overall development also needed to read as one. Godwin Austen Johnson, developed several different massing options which explored this approach, while also looking into the practicalities of obtaining the required convenience blend and operational efficiencies.
At Frontek, we provided the timber-looking panels W300 to recreate this duality in contrast with the Smooth Surface S101 model.