A spiral ladder climbs through three stories Raflles Boston Back Bay Hotel Sky lobby, its copper herringbone flooring below showing the city’s historic cobbled roads. Fluted column, the ladder is exceeded only by vertical circulation, but how is a material manifesto Stonehill Taylor The designed for North America’s first Raflles property reveals Boston’s cultural heritage.
Stonehill, led by President Paul Taylor and Principal Sara Dafi, separates the vision of Stonehill Taylor, was excavated by location-specific narratives. The design team serves three separate Bostonian Touchstone – leading botanical garden, huge plant collection of the Arnold Arboratum, and the revolutionary copper of Paul Revere – which works in a harmonious content manual at every place.
The travel to the 33-storey tower at 40 Trinity Place begins at the road level where dark stone tiles and one hand-blowing glass petal chandeliers install botanical shapes that appear throughout the building. The architects placed the main reception area on the 17th floor, which creates a threshold that separates the road-level noise from the high sanctuary. The gorgeous ladder maximizes the vision lines, reducing the structural footprint, allowing the surrounding iron and glass atals to catch the scene of the city.
Writers opens directly from the bar reception, forms a spontaneous transition between check-in and relaxation, while the special opportunity restaurant captures the double-heat volume that appears from several convenient points. Conversely, the speechy needs guests to navigate a intentional sequence of the threshold: climbing the 18th floor via a grand ladder, walking under a corridor watching the restaurant, and entering through a discrete door.
In rooms and suites, Stonehill Taylor demonstrated both restraint and accurate in translating the botanical tale of the hotel into intimate places. 147 rooms, including 29 suits, get a delicate balance between the global design language of the rafls and the specific cultural context of Boston. White marble floor with mosaic accents installs a refined material palette, while the walls painted by the bathroom hand bring the vegetation subject to more private places. Adorned with subtle leaf paintings, the headboard, involving the Asian effects that accept the heritage of Singapore of Raffles.
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photography by Brandon barre,
