The Hotel on Park Lane

The Hotel on Park Lane is one the most well-known luxury hotels in London, with a long and distinguished past. Engineer Owen William’s original concept for the hotel provoked the clean lines and ‘brave-new-world’ architecture of the famous ocean liners of the time. The design’s finalisation, however, was undertaken by architect William Curtis Green, who took the design down a more-traditional and ornamental route.

However, over the years, this concept has been lost under layers of colourful redecorations, extensions, and alterations, all leading to a hotel formed of fragmented styles and languages. Thus, we were asked to prepare a sketch book of ideas to bring the hotel back to its former status as one of the worlds leading hotels: This sketchbook included 28 ideas which together formed an overall masterplan for a large-scale refurbishment of the hotel. This included roof-garden terraces, swimming pools, a spa, a gymnasium, resident lounges, a whole new configuration of the entrance experience, and two additional floors of residential suites, all of which was collated into a 130 page document outlining the scheme. Several of the sketches from that document are included here.

Masterplan, Refurbishment, & New Build

Located in Mayfair 

2003–Present