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New Yorkers say they can spot the tourists a mile off, as they are the ones staring up, crane-necked and slack- jawed, at the towering metropolis around them.
COVER STORY: The Pig is the new hotel venture from Robin Hutson’s Home Grown Hotels. Vintage furnishings, reclaimed antiques and a colour scheme of muted greens and browns are combined with food from the hotel’s kitchen garden to create a new breed of country house hotel. An anteroom adjacent to the main greenhouse restaurant accommodates a snooker table which can be adapted to private dining or meeting use as the occasion requires.
The city’s residents, on the other hand, have their heads down and a clear sense of where they are going. On my latest trip to New York, however, on what has become an annual pilgrimage for the BDNY expo, I spent as much time looking down from the city’s skyscrapers as up at them. Properties such as Hôtel Americano, Yotel, the Mondrian and Dream Downtown all have stunning rooftop spaces, offering a different perspective on Manhattan and its architecture. Other recent rooftop escapes have included those at Mint Hotel Amsterdam (now rebranded as a Doubletree by Hilton, as we predicted last issue), Soho House Berlin and Leb-i-derya atop the Richmond in Istanbul. Soon the Shangri-La at the Shard will offer unrivalled bird’s eye views of London. Rooftop bars are nothing new of course, but architects and developers are increasingly incorporating them into their hotel plans wherever possible. The upper echelons of hotels have often been reserved for the things hoteliers didn’t want the public to see – high profile guests cocooned in penthouse suites, or ugly pieces of plant and machinery. Bars and restaurants tend to be located on the ground floors for the footfall they generate, and to encourage their use by locals as well as guests. But a stunning rooftop area can give a hotel a different kind of connection with the city around it. The best examples of the genre can become tourist destinations in their own right. As our cities become ever more crowded, they provide much needed sanctuary from the street level hustle and bustle. Nor is the trend confined to food and beverage operations. Meeting rooms, gyms, swimming pools and spas, so often confined to the basement, are on the up too. This upwardly- mobile dynamic has long been recognised in Asia, where mixed use developments commonly place a hotel on their upper floors with residential, office or retail elements beneath. For my money, the New York Bar & Grill on the top floor of the Park Hyatt Tokyo takes some beating but I’m sure many of you will have other ideas on the best hotel rooftop spaces around the world. Please feel free to join our Linked In group and post your suggestions.
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