Chambers Hotel brings boutique style to Midtown Manhattan.Chambers, which officially started accepting guests earlier this month, is he leading the trend of boutique hotels and architect re in midtown. The 15-story luxury hotel is one of the first in the boutique genre to be designed from the ground up. It is a stylistic forerunner bringing "downtown chic" to the heart of the Fifth Avenue retail district. The hotel's design is the collaborative effort of two New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City-based architectural firms, Adams Soffes Wood and Rockwell Group. The distinctive architecture of the 77-key hotel blends comfortably with the grand hotels populating the neighborhood, such as the St. Regis, The Peninsula and the Four Seasons. "In developing a plan for the massing of the hotel, we sought to make the most of the city's mandated zoning envelope to achieve proportions and scale evocative of New York's classic skyscrapers," says Lawrence Adams, AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture , partner in Adams Soffes Wood Architects & Interiors and co-author of Hotel Design Planning & Development, which will be published by Oxford's Architectural Press in April. "An unequivocally modern design approach was taken, drawing from essential elements and classical profiles that define many of the city's most distinguished buildings." Clad in Macedonian limestone, the 15-story facade steps back from its narrow lot, punctuated with brushed aluminum French doors that swing open behind blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. steel and decorative glass balconet railings. The sixth-floor setback features a stone-clad loggia loggia Hall, gallery, or porch open to the air on one or more sides. It evolved in the Mediterranean region as an open sitting room with protection from the sun. It is often a roofed, arcaded open gallery on an upper story overlooking a court, though it can also be a , crowned with a neon-lit cornice cornice (kôr`nĭs), molded or decorated projection that forms the crowning feature at the top of a building wall or other architectural element; specifically, the uppermost of the three principal members of the classic entablature, hence by . In the context of neighboring Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall Concert hall in New York, N.Y., U.S. It was endowed by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie at the insistence of the conductor Walter Damrosch (1862–1950). , MOMA Moma (mō`mä), town, E central Mozambique. It is important mainly as a harbor for the export of tropical produce. and the many trend-setting art galleries along 57th Street, the hotel's design was inspired by the cultural heritage of the city. Entering the tall bronze portal through carved American black walnut black walnut see juglans nigra. entrance doors, guests arrive at an intimate residential style lobby with wood floors, informal furniture and a central fireplace. The dramatic vaulted ceiling is up-lit from projected sconces attached to double-height leather clad columns. A cozy mezzanine lounge wraps around three sides of the space above the featured art wall, a metal and glass display system designed to exhibit many of the hotel's numerous paintings, etchings and photographs. The hotel itself functions as a gallery exhibiting over 400 pieces of art by some 100 artists with each of the guestrooms containing a minimum of three original pieces and each of the 12 guest floor corridors featuring full-scale, installations commissioned from emerging artists. |
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