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26, Passeig de Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
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Hotel Picasso
26, Passeig de Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
The group K+K Hotels based in
Austria selected Barcelona as the location for its new Boutique Hotel in
order to expand its presence in major European capitals. Following the
guidelines of the company, the hotel is located in one of the most central and
representative areas of the city: the Born district, just a few meters from Ciutadella
Parc. With a total of 92 rooms -5 of them suites-, the hotel is integrated into
the strict architectural scheme of Picasso Avenue, established in 1872 by
architect Josep Fontseré i Mestres which regulates the height and morphology of
buildings to clear a pedestrian arcade.
Led by Heinrich and
Bernard Koller, K+K Hotels -which has remained in family ownership since its
founding in 1961- is one of the most significant Austrian hotel chains with
hotels across Europe. The CEO, Heinrich Koller, personally oversees the
development of each of their hotels, engaging largely in the whole process of
planning and construction.
Aware of the high
added value that nowadays is offered by the singularity of a distinguished
design and architecture in their hotels, the firm has opted for an
architectural office with wide experience in corporate and hotel architecture,
the studio Wortmann Architects located in Barcelona. The team, led by Johannes
Wortmann, finished in 2009 one of his most significant projects, Ayre Hotel, a
building that has been published internationally in the best architecture and
interior design journals and which probably became the cover letter that
started the collaboration with K+K Hotels.
Without doubt, the
firm Wortmann Architects has managed to be placed in a strategic position: at
an adverse time when local capital availability is minimized, the team has
learned to articulate foreign investment through an international team of
architects and collaborators working from Barcelona and Berlin. The success of
their way of work lies not only in the architectural rigor but in their
diligent management of time and costs which has allowed them to complete the
building in just 15 months without deviation from budget.
The work comprises a
total floor area of about 4000 m2 distributed between the main floor, 5
floors of rooms and 2 basements for parking and has been carried out entirely
by the catalan construction company Beta Conkret, which is currently expanding
its international presence developing projects in Saudi Arabia and Brazil.
According to Johannes
Wortmann, "the commission was to blend into the urban fabric, K+K Hotels seeks
to integrate their buildings in the history of the city, and unlike our
previous hotels where architectural design became a the main attraction; at
Hotel Picasso, the overriding goal was to merge ourselves into the memory of
the urbanization of Picasso Avenue and Ciutadella Parc, the hotel had to become
part of a pattern established in the nineteenth century without being
highlighted as a new construction. To meet customer requirements, we looked for
references in other hotels of the company, as the Hotel Cayre in Paris, built in
one of the most elegant districts of the city, the quartier
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, with an imposing Haussmann architecture on the outside
but with a sober and contained elegance in the interior; we also reviewed the
Palais Hotel Vienna whose project involved the renovation of a historic nineteenth-century
urban palace and manages to get together an eminent imperial style with the
spirit of "charme" so
typical Viennese.
With these premises,
it was necessary to find our own piece of history and we disposed of a perfect
environment: the last free plot in the urban development established by Josep
Fontseré after the restructuration of the Citadel and its conversion into a
park in the late nineteenth century. We were in a location steeped in history
with a strict urban standard which established both heights and front façade
morphology, so we tried to accommodate as much as we could to our neighbors. We
work closely with the Project Manager for K+K Hotels, Peter Lochmann, who
coordinated the work of Austrian industrials and personally designed an inner
courtyard inspired in Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe; the British
interior designer Rachel Becket, who carefully selected materials such as dark cedar
wood to grant elegance and the necessary presence into the interior, and along
the landscaper Manel Colominas who designed a beautiful Japanese garden inside.
Our role as architects was to integrate all stakeholders in the design to
compose interior spaces provided by an enduring atmosphere in harmony with the
noble and rigorous external appearance. "
Austria selected Barcelona as the location for its new Boutique Hotel in
order to expand its presence in major European capitals. Following the
guidelines of the company, the hotel is located in one of the most central and
representative areas of the city: the Born district, just a few meters from Ciutadella
Parc. With a total of 92 rooms -5 of them suites-, the hotel is integrated into
the strict architectural scheme of Picasso Avenue, established in 1872 by
architect Josep Fontseré i Mestres which regulates the height and morphology of
buildings to clear a pedestrian arcade.
Led by Heinrich and
Bernard Koller, K+K Hotels -which has remained in family ownership since its
founding in 1961- is one of the most significant Austrian hotel chains with
hotels across Europe. The CEO, Heinrich Koller, personally oversees the
development of each of their hotels, engaging largely in the whole process of
planning and construction.
Aware of the high
added value that nowadays is offered by the singularity of a distinguished
design and architecture in their hotels, the firm has opted for an
architectural office with wide experience in corporate and hotel architecture,
the studio Wortmann Architects located in Barcelona. The team, led by Johannes
Wortmann, finished in 2009 one of his most significant projects, Ayre Hotel, a
building that has been published internationally in the best architecture and
interior design journals and which probably became the cover letter that
started the collaboration with K+K Hotels.
Without doubt, the
firm Wortmann Architects has managed to be placed in a strategic position: at
an adverse time when local capital availability is minimized, the team has
learned to articulate foreign investment through an international team of
architects and collaborators working from Barcelona and Berlin. The success of
their way of work lies not only in the architectural rigor but in their
diligent management of time and costs which has allowed them to complete the
building in just 15 months without deviation from budget.
The work comprises a
total floor area of about 4000 m2 distributed between the main floor, 5
floors of rooms and 2 basements for parking and has been carried out entirely
by the catalan construction company Beta Conkret, which is currently expanding
its international presence developing projects in Saudi Arabia and Brazil.
According to Johannes
Wortmann, "the commission was to blend into the urban fabric, K+K Hotels seeks
to integrate their buildings in the history of the city, and unlike our
previous hotels where architectural design became a the main attraction; at
Hotel Picasso, the overriding goal was to merge ourselves into the memory of
the urbanization of Picasso Avenue and Ciutadella Parc, the hotel had to become
part of a pattern established in the nineteenth century without being
highlighted as a new construction. To meet customer requirements, we looked for
references in other hotels of the company, as the Hotel Cayre in Paris, built in
one of the most elegant districts of the city, the quartier
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, with an imposing Haussmann architecture on the outside
but with a sober and contained elegance in the interior; we also reviewed the
Palais Hotel Vienna whose project involved the renovation of a historic nineteenth-century
urban palace and manages to get together an eminent imperial style with the
spirit of "charme" so
typical Viennese.
With these premises,
it was necessary to find our own piece of history and we disposed of a perfect
environment: the last free plot in the urban development established by Josep
Fontseré after the restructuration of the Citadel and its conversion into a
park in the late nineteenth century. We were in a location steeped in history
with a strict urban standard which established both heights and front façade
morphology, so we tried to accommodate as much as we could to our neighbors. We
work closely with the Project Manager for K+K Hotels, Peter Lochmann, who
coordinated the work of Austrian industrials and personally designed an inner
courtyard inspired in Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe; the British
interior designer Rachel Becket, who carefully selected materials such as dark cedar
wood to grant elegance and the necessary presence into the interior, and along
the landscaper Manel Colominas who designed a beautiful Japanese garden inside.
Our role as architects was to integrate all stakeholders in the design to
compose interior spaces provided by an enduring atmosphere in harmony with the
noble and rigorous external appearance. "
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