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Celebrated avant-garde architect Kengo Kuma from Japan and
creative Shanghai-based designers Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu are using their considerable
talents to challenge the norm in one of Beijing’s latest luxury hotels
- The Opposite House - the
first of a series of unique hotel properties from newly formed Swire Hotels.
Kuma, who is famed for some of the most innovative retail and commercial spaces in
Japan, including the LVMH group headquarters and the Suntory Museum in Tokyo, set out
to create a “spatial experience” of light and space that completely transforms the look of
the luxurious contemporary hotel from morning to night.
The hotel’s exterior, a striking emerald glass, is in keeping with the stunning glass
exteriors of The Village at Sanlitun, one of Beijing’s premier open-plan shopping and
entertainment destinations, of which The Opposite House is an integral part.
Among the hotel’s many striking features, a stainless-steel-clad swimming pool is
designed to dramatically reflect both natural light and exciting fibre optic lighting.
Guest rooms meanwhile are strikingly open and simple with natural brushed oak floors,
furniture and even bathtubs, with subtle touches of Chinese décor to evoke a sense of
place in Beijing.
Swire Hotels has been created to manage small luxury hotels in Hong Kong, Mainland
China and the United Kingdom, providing a luxury experience for travellers who seek
individuality, style and personalised service.
The Opposite House in Beijing
opens in July 2008 and will be followed by the opening of a 117-room luxury hotel
in Pacific Place, Hong Kong, in the summer of 2009 and a 100-room hotel at Taikoo Hui
in Guangzhou in 2010. Swire Hotels will also manage a 343-room lifestyle business hotel
called EAST, to be opened at Island East, Hong Kong, in 2009.
In the United Kingdom, Swire Hotels is developing a collection of luxury boutique hotels
in regional English towns and cities to be launched in 2009.
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