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Our Practice\u2019s involvement was many years after the initial Adaptive-Reuse Project, whereby the Hotel needed a thorough renovation-refurbishment. Taking this opportunity, our Project set as a high priority a tactical reconfiguration of the existing fa\u00e7ades in a way whereby they attain more coherence as a single project, while clearly responding to the context\u2019s specificity \u2013 be that in the fenestration of Modernist Architecture or the Historic Deployment of Local Sandstone.<\/p>\n
Similar to much of the work we admire, the Project seeks to operate as a \u2018Set Piece\u2019 in the fabric whose aesthetic disposition is that of a \u2018sophisticated disappearance\u2019. In this, the ambition is that the Project creates, first and foremost, a meaningful part of the city, whose presence could go almost unnoticed, while it gradually reveals its complexity and subtle nuances to the attentive observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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