{"id":3159,"date":"2018-11-18T16:33:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.listonegiordano.com\/luxury-hotel-fontenay\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T17:47:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:47:02","slug":"luxury-hotel-fontenay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/one\/en\/architecture\/luxury-hotel-fontenay\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury Hotel Fontenay: . Hamburg redefines luxury hospitality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

St\u00f6rmer Murphy and Partners<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A truly bespoke project in which everything, from floors to furnishings, is made-to-measure. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Hotel Fontenay<\/strong> rises on the south-western banks of Lake Alster<\/strong>, on a plot of land surrounded by centuries-old trees dominated by views out over the lake. Fully 27% of the Hamburg<\/strong> urban area is made up of parks and green spaces. The hotel lies in one of these natural, peaceful oases, right in the heart of the city. <\/strong><\/p><\/amp-fit-text>\n\n\n\n

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Hotel Fontenay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The plot was purchased in 1816 by John Fontenay, one of the Hanseatic city\u2019s most successful 19th-century merchants<\/strong>. Originally from Pennsylvania, John arrived in the city on horseback in 1800. Within two decades, he had become one of Hamburg\u2019s richest merchants, amassing a property empire of more than 80,000 sq. m of lands in the city\u2019s most exclusive districts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His properties included the site where the hotel that bears his name was built.<\/strong> This design, from St\u00f6rmer Murphy and Partners, was conceived as a homage to the city, a reflection of modern-day Hamburg\u2019s open, cosmopolitan and welcoming spirit through architecture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hotel Fontenay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The lightweight, light-filled building blends into the natural lakeside landscape<\/strong>. With an organic form created by three intersecting cylinders, it follows a three-lobed ground plan, conjured into being by the three circles and narrower interconnecting zones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are no main outlooks either front or back: every angle and every view has the same importance as every other<\/strong>, in a never-ending interpenetration of gardens and nature. Thanks to the unbroken glazing that provides a rhythm to the hotel’s floors, the extremely lightweight fa\u00e7ade is marked by sinuous terraced strips, rigorously white in line with the \u201cAlster Ordinance\u201d, which requires city buildings to have white as dominant color. <\/p>\n\n\n\n