首先,毫不犹疑地说,很少有酒店像新开业的仓库一样具有创意。这家拥有37间客房的酒店由19世纪晚期的三层高天花板货仓组成,位于新加坡罗伯逊码头(Robertson Quay)的边缘。在1980年代中期成为迪斯科舞厅之前,其在历史的各个发展阶段,都曾短暂化身成为季节性仓库,月光剧照和秘密社团总部。
其次,Lo&Behold Group首次涉足酒店业,便聘请了建筑师Zarch Collaboratives和他的设计工作室Asylum参与酒店空间的设计工作。设计师将海绵状的空间,设计成一个布满亚麻绳条,裸露的老砖砌物,柔软的织物,老旧的螺栓孔,斜躺式家具,定制的铜搁板和装饰框架的充满格调的创意工业风空间。
It’s safe to say that few hotels have as storied a providence as the newly opened Warehouse. Comprised of a trio of late 19th century high-ceilinged godowns set on the edge of Singapore’s Robertson Quay, the 37-room hotel was, at various stages in its history, a spice warehouse, moonshine stills and secret society HQs before a brief incarnation in the mid-1980s as a heaving disco.
In its first outing as hoteliers, local F+B specialists Lo & Behold Group have tapped architects Zarch Collaboratives and design studio Asylum to covert the cavernous space into a mood-lit bolthole dressed in rattan, exposed original brickwork, soft-hued fabrics and low-slung furniture, and lined with customised copper shelving and decorative frames.