Brutalism is back. The fickle finger of fashion has touched these concrete beasts of the architectural world. In many design hotels it’s the coffee table brutalism book lying on the shelf in reception, while other hoteliers have spotted that people want to try out a night in these singular 1060s buildings.
04 July, 2017
From
Oscar Niemeyer’s showpiece Brasilia Palace Hotel to the
hotel inside Le Corbusier’s classic Unite d’Habitiation in
Marseille, to the striking Hotel Zlatibor in Uzice, Serbia,
brutalist hotels are eye-catchers. Check in to rediscovered gems of
the 1970s like the Bristol Marriott, the Britannia in Coventry and
the Concorde in Quebec City or the Swissotel Zurich – or the new
kids on the block like the offices converted into hotels (The 9 in
Cleveland and Bloc in a former modernist block on top of Gatwick
Airport) and the forthcoming London Standard, which will be housed
in Camden Town Hall, where architects once designed ground-breaking
social housing in London, times sure are changing. Love it or hate
it, this is our pick of the brutalist best.
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Achingly hip re-imaging of the mid-century aesthetic in one of
the parts of central Stockholm that the post-war planners
completely got their teeth into. At Six is a new hotel that shows
that a brutalist building can be re-used (don’t knock it down – do
it up instead), updated and filled with finery to wow today’s
guests.
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