Islington Approves New Luxury Hotel

Plans by Allies and Morrison Architects and Conran and Partners for a new boutique hotel in the London borough of Islington have been approved by the planning committee of that council.

The nine storey hotel is being developed by Frogmore to sit on a site on the fringe area of the City of London at 3-4 South Place which is spitting distance from Liverpool Street Station.

Once complete it will offer accommodation in the form of 80 bedrooms plus a ground floor bar and restaurant, and on the seventh floor a further restaurant, this time with access to the roof terrace.

In a basic sense, the design resembles traditional London buildings with mansard roofs that are angled away from the streets below to reduce the bulk of the structure with the rooflines massed to fit in with the neighbouring buildings.

The façade however breaks away from the stone or brick we have come to expect from such buildings and instead employs a mixture of metal panels, both silver and bronze in colour, along with full height floor to ceiling windows and vertical metal fins, a common feature used by Allies and Morrison in many of their designs. On the sixth and seventh floors, dormer windows feature.

At ground level the brasserie and café connect to the street via a fully glazed retail frontage making it it a place not only for hotel guests but also locals to stop and have lunch.

Once it is completed in 2012 the hotel will be occupied by D&D London which was formerly Conran Restaurants and runs a number of high-profile eateries in the capital including Butlers Wharf Chop House and the Almeida Restaurant.