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The NewActon precinct is Canberra’s new cultural hub, the main place where business and culture travelers, art lovers, students, and locals all mingle. One uniquely Australian hotel stands out in this distinctive destination: Hotel Hotel, a holistic concept from the Australia-based Molonglo Group, founded on fertile principles of sustainability, community, diversity, and lifestyle. The hotel is located on three levels of the Nishi residential building, a sustainable “vertical village” that contains within it facilities delivering the best of global cinema, independent book and pop-up stores, music, and local cafés and bars. An exquisite grand stair, handcrafted from re-used and salvaged timbers, leads visitors to a hotel foyer more reminiscent of a living room than a lobby. The hotel public spaces are fashioned from humble materials, while bespoke furniture commissions, art, and collected objects feature in all of Hotel Hotel’s 68 rooms.
- Nearest Airport-CBR – Canberra International Airport
- Conference & Meetings-6 meeting rooms
- Food & Drink-Bar & Lounge
- Internet-Complimentary WiFi
- Spa & Recreation-Bicycling, Health Club
- Services-Barber Shop, Breakfast, Catering Services, Concierge, Covered Parking
ARCHITECTURE
FENDER KATSALIDIS
Hotel Hotel occupies three floors of the newly constructed Nishi residential building. Designed by Australian architectural firm Fender Katsalidis, in close collaboration with Japan’s Suppose Design Office, the intention of creating beautiful, sustainable apartments for a house obsessed Australian market has been beautifully executed. The residences are built from recycled timber and off-form concrete, generating an urban-scale interlocking geometrical structure.
INTERIOR DESIGN
AN EYE FOR FRAMING, COLOR AND TEXTURE
The design was realized by accomplished filmmaker Don Cameron, who brought his exceptional eye for framing, color and texture to construct engaging visual narratives. Features such as bespoke joinery made from reclaimed oak, wallpapers made from natural fibers and earthen clay rendered walls show a raw materiality. Shared passions for restored 20th-century furnishings, collected objects and a limited-run production of new pieces inform each room.
The hotel public spaces are fashioned from humble materials, in unexpected ways that celebrate creative imagination and encourage diverse and intimate social uses day and night. The hotel bar and lounge, a “main street” for guests, has an obsessively curated food and drink menu.
MADE BY ORIGINALS
NECTAR AND JOHNATHAN EFKARPIDIS
Hotel Hotel is the brainchild of Molonglo Group’s co-directors, Nectar and Johnathan Efkarpidis. The brothers see buildings as potent vessels for delivering cultural and social enterprise. They pursue a collaborative approach to the development of new ideas that help support the global sustainability movement, local artists, designers, and small industry. Nectar has a mixture of arts and commerce degrees; Johnathan is a graduate in humanities and takes an obsessive interest in sustainability. Having lived in London for many years and still a global nomad of sorts, Nectar provides creative narrative direction with a rigor seldom seen in the property industry. Nishi is the hub that cities often lack; Hotel Hotel is the access point to this hub.
Source: designhotels.com
