Hotel ICON, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Winner: CL3 Architects Ltd.
Award: Merit Award for Interior Architecture

This is a 262 key hotel in Hong Kong which combines teaching facilities with a full functioning commercial hotel. The project blends Ecology, Education, Experimentation, Art and Design in an Asian setting, creating a successful business model operated with 30% trainees and 70% professionals. As a training facility for the young generation, innovation becomes a key aspect for the project, which includes:

• Function rooms that operates as school auditorium in the day time.
• A ballroom based on black-box theatre concept, creating a neutral space with a crystal ceiling that can change colour with LED lighting to suit different events.
• A lobby that uses Asia's largest interior green wall to absorb carbon.
• A pair of curved benches made of raw plywood with built in lighting as lobby seating to counter act the strong architectural form.
• A juice bar besides the gym and pool area, with a 30ft ceiling and clad in green mosaic tiles, becomes a cocktail space that can caters to private pool side function.
• A curved shower in the guestroom takes a fresh look at guestroom planning.
  The project also incorporates art installations and design by students and local based artists.

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