Grzywinski+Pons turns 1970s workplace block into Locke at Damaged Wharf resort
Chainmail curtains distinction with butterscotch-coloured partitions in a resort created by structure studio Grzywinski+Pons within the shell of a 1970s workplace block in London.
Located close to the Millennium bridge, Locke at Damaged Wharf has been designed by New York-based studio Grzywinski+Pons to mirror the dichotomy of London’s cityscape.
The seven-storey resort takes over a 1970s workplace constructing, which beforehand contained a rabbit-warren of labor cubicles and ugly suspended ceilings.
“Whereas the unimaginable riverfront location of the positioning was a real reward, the disused industrial block that we had been poised to remodel was hardly predisposed in direction of a hospitality program,” stated the studio.
The constructing due to this fact needed to be utterly gutted to accommodate the resort’s 113 visitor rooms, a bar, co-working space and deli-style restaurant that serves up bagels, salads and charcuterie.
Expansive panels of glazing had been additionally inserted in Locke at Damaged Wharf’s facade to make the ground-floor communal areas lighter and extra open.
The restaurant now has sweeping views of buildings like Herzog & de Meuron’s angular Tate Fashionable extension and the lapping waters of the Thames, a distinction that the studio needed to seize within the inside design.
“The social house is meant to behave just like the connective tissue between London’s arduous edge and the serenity of the Thames,” defined the studio.
“There’s each city grit and splendour relying on which route one chooses to look.”
Some elements of the room are crafted from powerful supplies – just like the chainmail curtains that cowl the doorways and silver-metal pendant lamps – whereas different parts have been made to seem as “texturally lush, heat and alluring”.
Butterscotch partitions have been paired with creamy terrazzo flooring, complemented by rattan lounge chairs and earth-toned ceramic pots planted with succulents or fronds of wildflowers.
Champagne-coloured metal has additionally been used to craft the bar counter, round which is a collection of timber stool seats.
Parts of the decrease, suspended ceiling have additionally been maintained in try to create spots the place company can collect and chat.
“Reasonably than resisting the very nature of the shape inside which we had been working, as soon as we resolved to embrace the idiosyncratic, these constraints turned alternatives and a supply of inspiration,” added the studio.
The duality of arduous and gentle supplies is sustained upstairs within the bedrooms of Locke at Damaged Wharf. Soothing sage-green partitions and woollen rugs on the ground are offset with strong fixtures like copper clothes rails and metal facet tables with smoked-glass counter tops.
Some suites additionally embrace small kitchenettes crafted from light-hued birch plywood and sitting areas anchored by straw-yellow sofas.
Grzywinski+Pons is liable for the design of a number of Locke inns, that are dotted throughout the UK. Final yr the studio accomplished a department in Manchester, making use of gray tones all through its inside to mirror the town’s usually overcast skies.
The studio additionally common “sophisticatedly tropical” areas for the Eden Locke resort in Edinburgh, filling it with wicker furnishings and an abundance of leafy crops.
Pictures is by Nicholas Worley.