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Contents Features


030 Martinhal – Portugal 040 Berlin Location Report 064 Town Hall Hotel – Bethnal Green 075 Mira – Hong Kong 082 Pantone – Brussels 090 Blythswood Square – Glasgow 096 Hullett House – Hong Kong 104 Aloft – Abu Dhabi 108 The Sleep Event 128 Sustainable Hotels in a New Light 134 Technical Services: Swisscom 138 Brintons Profile 145 Bathrooms


Departments


013 Welcome 014 Check-In 016 Drawing Board 058 The Lobby


112 Event Diary 124 Head Office 169 The Specifier 186 Check Out


Guestbook 064


RARE ARCHITECTS Michel da Costa Goncalves and Nathalie Rozencwajg are the young architects entrusted by Singaporean hotelier Peng Loh with the transformation of Bethnal Green Town Hall into a contemporary boutique hotel – the first hotel project for their practice Rare Architects.


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030 NICHOLAS DICKINSON


Nicholas Dickinson and Nigel Chapman (below) founded Luxury Family Hotels and Alias Hotels, both since sold, before embarking on the launch of Martinhal, a five-star family resort on the Algarve, under the umbrella of their operating company Four Winds Resorts.


NIGEL CHAPMAN Nigel Chapman and Four Winds Resorts’ in-house designer Carole Taylor have worked closely with developers Roman and Chitra Stern on the design and development of Martinhal from a windswept beachfront plot into “Europe’s finest luxury family resort”.


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RONAN & ERWAN BOUROULLEC Known for their product designs for the likes of Vitra, Cappellini and Kvadrat, French brothers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have created the Dos Palillos restaurant at the Casa Camper hotel in Berlin, having previously designed stores in Paris and Copenhagen for the shoe company.


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