From
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.